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Designers have become aware of the importance of creating strong emotional experiences intertwined with new tangible products for the past decade, however an increased interest from firms has emerged in developing new service and business models as complimentary forms of emotion-driven innovation. This interdisciplinary study draws from the psychological sciences – theory of emotion – and the management sciences - business model literature to introduce this new innovation agenda. The term visceral hedonic rhetoric (VHR) is defined as the properties of a product, (and in this paper service and business model extensions) that persuasively induce the pursuit of pleasure at an instinctual level of cognition. This research paper lays the foundation for VHR beyond a product setting, presenting the results from an empirical study where organisations explored the possibilities for VHR in the context of their business. The results found that firms currently believe VHR is perceived in either their product and/or services they provide. Implications suggest shifting perspective surrounding the use of VHR across a firm’s business model design in order to influence the outcomes of their product and/or service design, resulting in an overall stronger emotional connection with the customer.
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The paper deals with differences between the definition of investmentproperty in IAS 40 and market practice as well as their consequences.According to the IAS 40, a real estate may be regarded as a material investmentor a financial investment, and the qualification depends on some specific conditionsand criteria. The article highlights that as a result of definition difficulties, a split between two crucial terms ‘investment property’ and ‘financial investment’emerged. The analysis has been conducted on the basis of financial reportsof 58 stock companies.
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The actual amount of financial resources allocated to facilitate investments is of great significance to socio-economic development. Unfortunately the actual needs very often surpass the actual possibilities. This is why it is important to create new forms of support. An example of such forms is public-private partnership which enables a private investor to accomplish tasks and duties of public sector. Such model of acting, in which each side is beneficial, is based on mutual cooperation between those subjects. Such form is crucial in capital intensive investments as well as in strategic sectors of the economy like energetic. This is why methods for accomplishing such partnership along with investments in Poland and Great Britain, namely in countries which display different approaches to such cooperation, have been introduced in this publication. Comparative analysis has been used in the publication.
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The objective of this paper is to assess the financial-accounting software used in smallenterprises operating business in the area of Olsztyn in Warmińsko-Mazurskie voivodship. The research material was acquired by means of the questionnaire-based survey targeted at selected small enterprises situated in Olsztyn. Out of 50 questionnaires distributed 18 (36%) were returned. Based on the survey conducted, it was determined that the majority of the enterprises surveyed use standard, generally accessible financial-accounting software. The extensive choice of standard software in the market is the most frequently indicated factor determining the purchase of software of that type. The acquisition of accounting software is decided less frequently on the price, and more on the standard software being known to the employees and the software availability. Small enterprises use both the obligatory registers (functions) and numerous optional registers available in the financial-accounting software they possess.
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It is known that conflicts are a fact of business life and they are unavoidable, so these conflicts have some effects on the organization and the employee. Conflict management style is important in order to avoid the negative and destructive effects of conflicts on the organization and the employee and to obtain positive and constructive results. The employee performance is the premier of fundamental issues as it provides a general success and competition for organizations. The population of research area is the employees of the 11 private banks in Istanbul. Face to face questionnaire was applied to 359 employees in those banks. According to the research results, conflict management styles except avoidance behaviors have a positive effect on role-based performance of employees. It was understood from the research that integrative reconciliation and cooperation conflict management styles affect the role-based performance directly. Furthermore, there were differences in perceiving the business experience which is a demographic factor and the contribution of role-based performance to the organization in the research. Those who have 11 years experience or more had higher perception of role performance contributing to organization than the others.
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In this study, the causal and correlational relationship between employees’ servant leadership perception and leader-member exchange (LMX) perception was investigated. In this respect, the purpose of the study is to by testing the effect of employees’ servant leadership perception on LMX in the public sector filling the gap in the literature. The main research question of the study is that “Are employees’ servant leadership perceptions a statistically significant predictor of LMX”. The sample of this study consists of 200 public sector employees, who work in non-managerial positions, and the data was gathered by using convenience sampling method. To collect data, survey method was used. In order to analyse the data, SPSS software was used. The findings show that there is a positive and statistically significant relationship between employees’ servant leadership perception and leader-member exchange perception. Moreover, the three sub-dimensions of servant leadership namely accountability, empowerment and unpretentiousness are positive and statistically significant predictors of LMX. Managerial and practical implications are provided.
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This study aimed to examine the effect of ethical leadership on loyalty to supervisor by considering the possible mediator effect of trust of employees to supervisor. The study conducted with the sample of 300 employees who work in five star hotels in Antalya, Belek. The method of the study is literature review and relational analysis. According to the results “Perceived Ethical Leadership Behavior” had a significant effect on “Cognitive Trust to Supervisor” and “Affective Trust to Supervisor” and “Loyalty to Supervisor”. Besides, the results proved that “Cognitive Trust” and “Affective Trust” had a perfect mediation effect in the relationship between “Ethical Leadership” and “Loyalty”.
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The purpose of this study is to analyze accounting error and accounting fraud through investigating the views of independent auditors about their responsibility in preventing error and fraud. Realization of error and fraud in accounting harms all stakeholders (i.e. individuals, society, state and companies). Hence, identifying and avoiding error and fraud requires expertise in the field. Within this context, a survey was applied on the 84 independent auditors active in business in Northeastern Anatolia (Ağrı, Ardahan, Erzurum, Iğdır and Kars), and results were analyzed and commented accordingly. In addition, factor analysis and variance analysis were applied in order to reveal the relationship between variables and factors, if any.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the idiosyncratic deal (i-deal) which is individually bargained employment arrangements intended to benefit both employee and organization between employee and employer. First of all, the concept of the idiosyncratic deals was introduced and the importance of i-deals was explained. Later on, previous studies about the concept to define ideals were discussed comprehensively. Finally conclusion and recommendations were given. There have not been sufficient number of study about idiosyncratic deals to observe yet but expectation is that it will be mentioned most often in a short span of time.
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Due to the new legal regulations in our country; a lot of new approaches, views and ideas have been developed and come to be practiced. For example, building a single-partner firm is possible. Although at least 2 parties are needed for a partnership to take place; however now a single person or an artificial person could be a firm partner by itself. Although the concept of capital usually refers to money in real life context, in the science of economics all possible kinds of means of production are referred to as capital and is a factor of production. Capital is also a resource and depending on the place of procurance it can be defined either as loan (foreign) capital or core capital. The procurement of loan capital from monetary and capital markets could be more difficult than the procurement of core capital. On the other hand, firm partners provide core capital to the firm by means of issuing loans which is parallel to the firm’s activities, issuing capital resources, or joining in capital increases. Besides, they can use these loans for capital increase purposes. This situation has been selected as the main object for this paper. Because it is discussed whether this resource really exists or not. The YMM/SMMM (sworn-in certified public accountant/certified public accountant) report is demanded for capital increase purposes which effects the firm’s activities and financial decisions.
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Airline transport sector, which is one of the sectors showing the most fastest improvement with globalization, compared to other methods of transportation have become more preferable because it is faster and safer. The sector varies also considerably when compared to most of the sector in terms of market structure and functioning. The airline transport industry different from most other sectors because airline transport demand is derived demand, the demand is high mobility opposite to the stable of the airline supply and market conditions is significantly contestability. In this paper, airline transport market analyzed basic micro-economic variables theoretically such as costs, demand, supply and contestability.
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Having witnessed the internet and mobile revolutions, ubiquitous computing is likely to cause a newer and more significant revolution that is going to diffuse information technology to everyday objects in physical world, thereby radically changing the marketing discipline. Within the scope of ubiquitous computing, context aware mobile applications enable CRM systems to analyze diverse variables in real time to learn “why” of consumer behaviour and establish completely personalized one-to-one marketing communication on the fly while customer is on move. By enabling tailored offer designation at the point of need in real time, context aware marketing applications are likely to cause customer relationship management practices to be reconsidered from stratch. In this article, CRM is re-assessed from context aware mobile applications perspective, some applications in the literatute is reviewed and a conceptual framework is proposed.
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The size and duration of the impact of exchange rate on the general price level have been frequently discussed in the empirical literature. The debate has been mostly tested by the classical time series approaches such as causality and vector auto regressions based on the linear relationships. However, at this point, in analyzing the size and duration of the impact of exchange rate, the fact that non-linear distributed lag models will give more accurate results than linear models must be known. The purpose of this study is to determine the exchange-rate pass-through impact on the general price level by employing non-linear distributed lag models. The study covers the period of 2003-2014 for the Turkish economy. In this study, the size and duration of the impact of exchange rate, which is used as Euro and dollar, on the consumer and producer prices were estimated by the Almon model. The empirical findings of the study demonstrated that the pass-through impact of exchange rate on the general price level is non-linear in the case of Turkey.
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Being of people oriented of today’s businesses has been compulsory due to increased customer and employee expectations. Empowerment has an important place in the field of today’s business management approach. Empowerment can be carried out by a culture which supports creating a flexible place for employees, incorporating them into decisions, training them continuously and letting them using authority and responsibility. In other words, application of personnel empowerment successfully depends on culture of organization. The main objective of this study is to determine the relationship between organizational culture and employee empowerment and to reveal the proportion of the relationship between organization culture and strengthening staff concepts in terms of sub sub-dimensions by examining the stated concepts. The research was carried out by performing survey conducted on 310 employees working in a company from aviation industry. In the analysis of the conducted surveys, frequency distributions, reliability analysis, factor analysis, t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), correlation analysis and regression analysis were used from statistical methods and the results were summarized in tables. The workers of the company where the surveys were performed stated that the organization had adhocracy and market culture and they felt as reinforced.
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In this study, the effect of organizational commitment variable on social exchange and organizational socialization was examined. According to social exchange, concrete rewards such as money and other benefits make employees spend extra effort and not to leave their organizations. Organizational socialization process shows the changes in certain attitudes and beliefs of an individual in organizational commitment. According to the findings, affective commitment factor has a positive effect on institution-duty factor, education factor and work-colleague factor of organizational socialization. According to this result, it is possible to say that when the level of organizational commitment increases, social exchange level of Kocaeli University employees also increases.
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Food and beverage companies have been trying to understand and control the consumer response to their products. Moreover, companies have been to gain a competitive advantage by developing new flavors or modifying the taste of their products. The aim of this study is to determine, whether the participants discriminate their favorite brand by using blind tests. This research was carried out on 71 eligible participants with pro and last measure experiment. The findings from the study did not match the brand, which the participants who expressed that they like, correctly in pro and last measure statistically. In this study, it has been revealed that the assessment with only a single sensory organ is not sufficient to support taste perception in terms of both theory and practice and that other sensory organs should also support it.
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The aim of this paper is to examine the co-integration relationship between patents and foreign direct investments in Turkey. Accordingly, Gregory Hansen co-integration method is applied, which is used to see co-integration relationship under the condition of structural break. As a result of this study, the year 1984 is identified as a structural break year. The long-term relationship between patents and foreign direct investments is in a negative way before 1984, in a positive way after 1984. The patents’ monopolistic potential and making restrictions for entering the market and multinational corporations’ licensing instead of foreign direct investments can be assessed as the causes of the negative relationship. And Turkey’s liberal economic policies for foreign direct investments after 1980 can be considered the cause of the positive relationship principally.
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Today Tablet PC industry is becoming increasingly prevalent and released different products. Selecting the ideal tablet computers will provide savings in cost and time to people or institutions. This research covers to determine ideal tablet using the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (BAHP) approach. As a result of analysis the most important criteria when selecting the ideal tablet computer are price range and speed criterions by 28.1% and 27.6% respectively. Additionally Ram criterion is the first place by 29.9% in the sub-criteria that determine the speed criterion. Other important sub-criteria are processor technology and processor speed by 27.5% and 24.9% respectively.
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Work-life balance is an important aspect of working life. It has attracted attention worldwide with its relations to workers’ wellbeing, as well as their intention to leave. he main purpose of this research is to determine whether work-life balance and career satisfaction, which means psychological and work related positive results due to work experiences, has a significant effect on intention to leave. he research sample consists of public and private sector workers. In this study, the effect of perceptions related to work-life balance and career satisfaction on intention to leave was examined. It was found that there was a negative effect of work-life balance and career satisfaction on intention to leave as a result of multiple regression analysis.
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