Course Name | Turkish Business Structural Analysis |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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BA 584 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 |
Prerequisites | None | |||||
Course Language | English | |||||
Course Type | Service Course | |||||
Course Level | Second Cycle | |||||
Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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Course Objectives | The aim of the course is to help students understand Turkish business environment from a comparative and historical perspective. |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description | The course deals with the Turkish Business System in historical comparative perspective. It specifically involves an analysis of historical changes in Turkish business system characteristics such state-business relations, organizational structures and strategies, and managerial elites. Furthermore, it examines the economic, political, and institutional conditions that shape entrepreneurial behavior and organizations of business activities in Turkey. |
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Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Introduction to the course | |
2 | Comparative Perspective: National Business Systems Approach | Carla I. Koen. 2005. Chapter 4.2: The Business Systems Approach, pp. 155-166. Comparative International Management. McGraw-Hill: London. |
3 | An Introduction to Turkish Business Context | Berkman, Ümit, and Özen, Şükrü. 2007. Turkish Business System and Managerial Culture: State-Dependency and Paternalism in Transition. Eduardo Davel, Jean-Pierre Dupuis, et Jean-François Chanlat (Der.), Gestion en contexte interculturel : approches, problématiques, pratiques et plongées. (Chapter VI.4) Québec, Presse de l’Université Laval et TÉLUQ/UQAM. |
4 | Private Business in Turkey: Past and Present | Buğra, A. 1994. Chapter 2: Private Business in Turkey: Past and Present. State and Business in Modern Turkey. Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 35-93. |
5 | Corporate Governance in Turkey | Selekler-Gökşen, Nisan, and Yıldırım-Öktem, Özlem. 2009. Countervailing institutional forces: Corporate governance in Turkish family business groups. Journal of Management and Governance, 13: 193-213. |
6 | Diversification Strategy in Turkish Business Groups | Colpan, A. M. 2010. Business Groups in Turkey. In A. Colpan, T. Hikino, J. R. Lincoln (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, pp. 486-525, Oxford University Press: Oxford |
7 | Liberalization and New Business Groups | Özcan, G. B., and Turunç, H. 2011. Economic Liberalization and Class Dynamics in Turkey: New Business Groups and Islamic Mobilization. Insight Turkey, 13: 3, 63-86. |
8 | Changing State-Business Relations | Buğra, Ayşe and Savaşkan, Osman. 2012. Politics and class: The Turkish business environment in the liberal age. New Perspectives on Turkey, 46: 27-63. |
9 | State-Business Relations and Firm Performance | Özcan G. B., and Gündüz, U. 2014. “Political connectedness and business performance: evidence from Turkish industry rankings”. Business and Politics, 17:1, 41-73. Özen, Şükrü, and Önder, Çetin. 2019. Adaptation of Corporate Political Ties to Radical Political Change and its Performance Implications: The Case of Turkish Industrial Enterprises, 1999-2010. 10. Örgüt Kuramı Sempozyumu Bildiriler Kitabı, s. 150-157, 8-9 February, 2019, Izmir University of Economics. |
10 | Business Elites in Turkey | Yamak, Sibel. 2006. Changing institutional environment and business elites in Turkey. Society and Business Review, 1(3) 206-219 |
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12 | Project Presentations | |
13 | Project Presentations | |
14 | Project Presentations | |
15 | Semester Review | |
16 | Final Exam |
Course Notes/Textbooks | Yok/None |
Suggested Readings/Materials | Related papers, books and journals |
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | ||
Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | 10 | 40 |
Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments | ||
Presentation / Jury | 1 | 10 |
Project | 1 | 30 |
Seminar / Workshop | 1 | 20 |
Oral Exam | ||
Midterm | ||
Final Exam | ||
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 13 | 100 |
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 0 | |
Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 5 | 80 |
Field Work | |||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | 10 | 4 | |
Portfolio | |||
Homework / Assignments | |||
Presentation / Jury | 1 | 8 | |
Project | 1 | 25 | |
Seminar / Workshop | 1 | 10 | |
Oral Exam | |||
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Final Exams | |||
Total | 211 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest