Business and Economics Research Journal

463-479

Authors: Katarzyna Świerczyńska, Agata Kliber

The goal of this paper is to investigate the relationships between the process of technology absorption, official development aid (ODA), foreign direct investment (FDI), and import in Sub-Saharan Africa. We investigate long-run relationships between the process of technology absorption in the region. The investigation is based on such variables as ODA, FDI as well as import from developing and developed economies to estimate co-integration relationships and error-correction models. The results obtained indicate that aid and import from the South are more likely to cause the absorption of technology than other directions of flow.

499-512

Authors: Tuba Hanifi, Aysun Eser Ozen

The aim of this study is to analyse the impact of energy consumption on economic growth in the basis of main sectors, between the years 1972-2015 in Turkey. The dependency between variables was tested by the method of Horizontal Cross Section (CD test), then the causality between energy consumption and Gross Domestic Product was analysed by using the heterogeneous panel test developed by Dumitrescu and Hurlin. Unidirectional causality from growth to energy consumption was found for Turkey. In terms of the main sectors, unidirectional causality from growth to energy consumption in the agricultural sector and bi-directional causality between growth and energy consumption in the services sector was found. In terms of the industrial sector, no causality was found.

531-542

Authors: Selahattin Kaynak, Mirac Eren

Turkish manufacturing industry has been increasingly important with the adoption of free market economy. It has become the driving force of the Turkish economy in terms of employment, production and exports. In terms of capital ownership, in Turkish manufacturing industry; public, private and foreign capital type companies operate in different status. The aim of this study is to predict the sales income trends of the public, private and foreign capital types operating in different positions in terms of capital ownership in the Turkish manufacturing industry through the Grey and Markov model. The grey model for estimating the total sales revenue of the firms, and the new Markov approach based on the quadratic programming model for their trends have been proposed. These models were used to forecast the total sales of firms for the period 2004-2014 and to estimate the trends of 2017-2022 period. In the scope of the research, the sales revenues of Turkey’s largest 500 industrial firms, operating in the manufacturing industry were analyzed. The analyzed dataset covers the period 1993-2014. As a result of the analyzes, it has been found that in the Turkish manufacturing industry, the weight of public capital is gradually decreasing and that the private capital has a high level of penetration.

559-578

Authors: Duygu Arslanturk Collu

The study seeks to determine the main factors influencing stock selection decisions of individual investors in Borsa İstanbul (BİST). To achieve this objective, an integrated Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) and Analytic Network Process (ANP) method was used and a five-point Likert scale survey questionnaire was designed. The questionnaire included twenty one factors that belong to five categories, namely, accounting information; recommendations; personal financial needs, firm specific attributes and other factors. The results show that there are six most important factors affecting the stock selection decisions of individual investors at the BIST which are brokerage house recommendations, willingness of taking risk for high returns, get rich quick, opinions of the firm’s majority stockholders, suggestions from friends and family and diversification needs. On the other hand, three factors were found to be the least influencing factors on individual investors’ stock selection decisions. The least influencing factors in order of importance were sensitivity of firm performance to overall market performance, fluctuations/developments in the indices of the major markets, affordable share price.

589-603

Authors: Ali Ihsan Akgun

Financial statement manipulation has been well-rounded analyzed in both finance and accounting literature as it is important to determine whether firms could affect both performance and accounting standards. The purpose of this study is to examine cases of financial reporting manipulations which were subject to published enforcement actions by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), Securities Class Action Clearinghouse (SCAC), Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Releases (AAERs) and General Accounting Office (GAO) between 1996 and 2014 for reasons of alleged financial misstatements in the USA. Therefore, this study will provide to examine the relationship between bank performance and financial statement manipulations in the accounting standards. More importantly, although financial misconduct such as financial reporting manipulation is an emerging topic of great importance, a comprehensive literature review of the subject has yet to be carried out in terms of accounting standards. In this context, this study focuses on financial reporting manipulation within the context of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). This study is contributed to the literature by examining the impact of financial reporting manipulation within the same or different systems of accounting standards on bank financial reporting. Findings suggest that banks that manipulate financial statements increase their operating profitability and productivity as a measure of financial performance used in the IFRS.

619-630

Authors: Ugur Yigit

Chairman and the members of the board of directors can be made payments in different names by the joint-stock companies. A member of the board of directors of a company may be a shareholder of this company at the same time. Because of being a shareholder of the company, the member of the board of directors can be paid dividend. It is possible that a member of the board of directors of a company who is at the same time a shareholder of the company, may also be employed as general manager or assistant general manager based on a contract of employment and in return of this employment, wage can be payed. In this case, payment can be made to the relevant person based on the three titles (member of the board of directors/shareholder of the company/employee of the company). Both the payments made to a natural person chairman of the board of directors and a member, being a shareholder and an employee of the company at the same time and taxation of these payments constitute the subject of this study.

651-663

Authors: Gokhan Kerse, Daimi Kocak, Sefik Ozdemir

This studyexamines the effect of job insecurity on the level of emotional exhaustion and the role of affective commitment level on this influence. The survey (was conducted on 136 employees of a company operating in the manufacturing sector. Data were collected by questionnaire technique. In the process of analyzing the data was used SPSS and AMOS packaging programs.Structural equation modeling analysis was used to test the hypotheses developed in the research. The findings of the analysis showed that job insecurity effects affective commitment in the negative direction and emotional exhaustion in the positive direction. In addition, it has been determined that affective commitment plays a partial mediating role on the effect of job insecurity on emotional exhaustion. In other words; job insecurity affectsemotional exhaustion both directly and through affective commitment. The findings in the research are thought to contribute to both the literature and the business managers.

681-696

Authors: Ercan Ergun, Koray Yalcinkaya

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of the behavior of leaders on the change potential of employees in organizational changes taking place at firms. The research data was collected from 140 employees in 17 manufacturing companies operating around Kocaeli Industrial Region performing organizational change. From these employees, the data collected by the questionnaire were analyzed in the research framework. The relationship between the dimensions of leadership behavior and the dimensions of change capacity of employees relations have been examined. The findings show that there is a significant relationship between change-oriented leadership behavior features open to change and emotional readiness of employees. Relationship-oriented leadership behavior is the highly important factor to increase of cognitive readiness and intentional readiness for change of employees.

715-733

Authors: Ozlem Ayvaz Kizilgol, Evren Ipek

The present study empirically evaluates the socio-economic factors that affect the domestic violence against women in Turkey. The types of violence against women was examined with the Multinomial Logit Model (MNLM) by the use of data received from the Survey on Domestic Violence against Women in Turkey, which was performed by Turkish Statistical Institute for the year 2014. Empirical results show that physical and sexual violence raises as the women’s age increase; and if the educational status of the women and their husbands was at and above university level, women faced less domestic violence. The results indicate that employment of women and husband did not have any significant effects on physical violence and economic and emotional violence. It is observed that if women had their own income or earning, they received less economic and emotional violence; and health insurance for women reduced the possibility of all types of violence. The results reveal that women living in urban areas were exposed to any type of violence more than those living in rural areas; and the bad habits of spouse (alcohol, gambling and drugs) increased every type of violence against women.