Analysis of Article Methodologies on Financial Statements’ Transparency Between the Years 2000 and 2016

Bilal SOLAK

Accounting scandals that took place in the last quarter of the twentieth century such as the one at ENRON and PARMALAT prove the importance of transparency and objectivity for the presentation of financial statements. Accounting researchers all over Turkey and other countries have started to publish more studies using different kinds of methodologies on providing transparency for the financial statements due to the scandals. Published work by accounting scientists is extraordinarily crucial both for accounting theory and shaping accounting applications. In this research, article methodologies ...Daha fazlası

Entropic organizational climate (EOC): Development and validation of new scale = Энтропийный организационный климат: разработка и валидизация новой шкалы

Mustafa Fedai ÇAVUŞ

Entropy, which is an element of the system approach evaluating organizations as a system, refers to the deterioration tendency. Purpose. This study aimed to develop a new scale in order to evaluate the negative climate in organizations. Method. The study was carried out in two stages. In the first study, the construct validity of the scale (N 412) was revealed by exploratory factor analysis and, also convergent and discriminant analysis in the banking sector. The second study was carried out in the teacher sample (N 224) and analysed for confirmatory factor analysis and predictive validity of ...Daha fazlası

The moderator role of negative environment perceptions in the effect of achievement motivation on work values in entrepreneurship

Ömer Lütfi ANTALYALI

The Effect of Ownership Structure on Financial Reporting Timeliness: An Implementation on Borsa Istanbul

Gökhan ÖZER

The purpose of the current study is to investigate the influence of corporate and foreign ownership structures on the timeliness of financial reporting. The sample of the study consists of 2,204 observations obtained from 208 companies trading in Borsa Istanbul between 2008 and 2019. Multiple regression analysis was conducted, and the relationship between ownership structure and financial reporting timelinesses was investigated. The findings indicate that corporate and foreign ownership are significantly and negatively associated with financial reporting timeliness. Robustness analysis was car ...Daha fazlası

Exploring the impact of university support on students' entrepreneurial intentions: evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Azamat MAKSUDUNOV

Whether university support is meaningful in increasing students' entrepreneurial intentions (EI) remains largely under-investigated, especially in the context of Central Asian countries. In this study, we attempted to address this question by examining the effects of university support (comprised of educational support, concept development support, and business development support) on students' EI. We employed a structured questionnaire to collect data from 793 student respondents enrolled in 13 universities in Kyrgyzstan and performed descriptive and inferential statistical analyses. Our anal ...Daha fazlası

Corporate environmental, social, and governance activities and financial reporting quality: An international investigation

Gökhan ÖZER

This paper examines the impact of firms' environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities on financial reporting quality (FRQ). The study uses 45,877 firm-year observations from 65 countries between 2003 and 2021. In the research model, firm characteristics and macroeconomic and institutional structure characteristics of the countries are controlled for. This study finds that firms with higher ESG scores have higher FRQ. Additionally, our mediation analysis indicates that financial distress costs serve as a crucial mechanism through which ESG influences FRQ. Our findings are robust after ...Daha fazlası

Audit Committee and Timely Reporting: Evidence From Turkey

Gökhan ÖZER

This paper seeks to examine whether the characteristics of the audit committee impact the timely reporting represented by audit report lag (ARL), firm-based abnormal audit report lag (FAARL), and industry-based audit reports lag (IAARL). The sample of the study includes mostly hand-collected 2,284 firm-year observations obtained from Turkey's listed non-financial companies. Main regression results show that audit committee gender diversity, meeting frequency, and independence are negatively associated with timely reporting. Furthermore, additional analysis indicates the negative association be ...Daha fazlası

To Click or Not To Click? Kyrgyz Consumers

Azamat MAKSUDUNOV

Social media attracts a wide range of users and in this way creates great opportunities for businesses and in this way attract the academic researchers from all over the world. According to recently published research, the majority of the articles on this subject concentrated in the last 5 years and main of them addressed to developed countries. Limited numbers of studies have published from emerging markets especially from the former Soviet Union countries. This study aims to examine social media usage in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. Data was collected by using structured questionnaire, which base ...Daha fazlası

The demand determinants for urban public transport services: A review of the literature

Cihat POLAT

The future always includes some degree of uncertainty and reducing it is of special importance for decision makers. This is also valid for the decision makers in the public transport area. The uncertainty in the future demand and the need to know the factors that influence the demand make the area much interested in by the decision makers for the sake of planning and making right decisions. In this sense, knowing about the demand driving factors and determining future demand for public transport services are very basic managerial instincts for those who perform in the area. However, the subjec ...Daha fazlası

A simulation model for managing outsourcing decisions

Arman Teksin TEVFİK

The aim of this research is to contribute into the development of a strategic and systematic outsourcing decision-making framework for practitioners. In this regard, the authors propose a concrete decision framework that would incorporate quantitative measures and financial dimensions in outsourcing decision-making process. In addition, the authors also provide a platform to make outsourcing decisions under high uncertainty levels associated with insufficient and/or imprecise data. For this purpose, Monte Carlo simulation is used to evaluate the financial results of an outsourcing decision bas ...Daha fazlası

A case study of foreign direct investment in Kyrgyzstan

İbrahim KELEŞ

For developing or poor countries that do not have substantial natural resources that can be used in their economic development, foreign direct investment (FDI) may play an important role considering the inability of such countries to modernize their industries and produce industrialized products. One the benefits of FDI is the opportunity for local firms to learn from experiences and capabilities of foreign firms. Kyrgyzstan is a poor and newly independent country of the former Soviet Union (FSU). This region is one of the last areas to which foreign investments have been flowing. Garibaldi et ...Daha fazlası

Technological intelligence for circular supply chain: a co-citation analysis approach

Serhat BURMAOĞLU

Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the supply chains, and this brought researchers and practitioners to think about more on circular supply chains (CSC). The CSC concept has been discussed in the literature more than a decade. This study aims to find out the theoretical roots of CSC by analyzing scholarly articles in literature. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses document cocitation analysis for reaching this aim. After retrieving data from Web of Science database, this paper explores data set by considering used references of these publications and clusters them based on the ...Daha fazlası