İşletme Bölümü / Department of Business Administration

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Dynamic Identities and Self-Perception of Aging: the Case of Turkish Cosmetic Surgery Patients
(Elsevier Science Inc, 2021) Tarı Kasnakoğlu, Berna
Drawing on the idea that aging is a physical and a psychosocial process, this study aimed to understand self perceived aging by focusing on the cultural and experiential perspective presented by Turkish women. The social and interactive aspects were reflected in their self-perceptions of aging, which did not necessarily entail physical degradation or health problems. This study focused on patients who underwent anti-aging operations, and cosmetic surgery was revealed to be a convenient and quick way to eliminate the physical signs of aging. By analyzing 31 in-depth interviews with patients of ages ranging from 21 to 75, three interpretations of aging were identified and discussed. Past-oriented women wanted to return to good old times, present-oriented women wanted to balance their inner and outer selves, and future-oriented women desired a total transformation in their lives. This study contributes to our understanding of self-perceived aging and presents findings from patients who did not necessarily conceptualize their selves as moving forward in time. Successful aging may be possible by means of past, present, or future selves, and success in aging is socio-culturally interpreted by these women in addition to more objective definitions of well-being and medical norms.
Citation - Scopus: 2
Effects of Multipart Media Framing on Consumer Attitudes Toward Biotechnology
(Usc Annenberg Press, 2015) Genç, Tuğçe Özgen; Tarı Kasnakoğlu, Berna
This study explores whether and how people with a negative biotechnology-related perception can change their attitudes when they are exposed to a positive message in two different frames. The two frames differ in terms of the medium, the language used, and the general tone. A frame is thus conceptualized as unified symbolic entities, rather than just words or positioning in terms of valence (positive/negative). An exploratory stage was conducted through in-depth interviews, which resulted in three audience categories. Results of the experimental study indicated that it is, in fact, possible to turn negative attitudes into positive attitudes for people with intuitive perceptions. People with analytical and ideological perceptions change their attitudes only when the frame is scientific.
Citation - Scopus: 10
Human or Social Resources Management: Which Conditions Force Hr Departments To Select the Right Employees for Organizational Social Capital?
(Wiley Perıodicals, Inc, 2016) Sözen, H. Cenk; Varoğlu, Demet; Yeloğlu, H. Okan; Basım, H. Nejat
This study examines in which cases organizations tend to form social capital, and explores how such attitude affects their recruitment strategies. This countrywide research project covering 158 firms located in 18 different cities was conducted to understand and to identify the variables which increase organizations' tendency to form social capital. A mixed methodological approach was adopted to reveal relationships between variables. The results show that dependency to state and suppliers, environmental uncertainty, rate of tenured staff in organizations, ownership status, conduct of HR activities by other departments or units and educational level of HR staff increase organizations' tendency to form social capital. Besides, it was found that organizational age, outsourcing of HR activities and centralized HR departments are negatively associated with social capital.
Citation - Scopus: 14
Intrusion-Detection Policies for It Security Breaches
(Informs, 2008) Ögüt, Hulisi; Çavuşoğlu, Hüseyin; Raghunathan, Şrinivaşan
Intrusion-detection systems (IDSs) form an important component of IT security architectures, but the low proportion of hackers in the user population severely limits the usefulness of IDSs. Thus, even when the IDS is good, an intrusion signal may not imply that the user is more likely to be a hacker than a normal user. Ignoring the low base rate for the proportion of hackers results in acting on every intrusion signal, which is costly because of the high rate of false alarms. This problem is known as the base-rate fallacy in IDSs. On the other hand, ignoring intrusion signals renders IDSs useless. We propose and analyze waiting-time policies, which specify a response to signals from IDSs. We formulate the problem as a stochastic dynamic programming model and derive the optimal waiting time before acting upon an intrusion signal. Because the optimal policy is difficult to implement in many situations, we also derive and theoretically analyze a myopic policy. Our simulations suggest that the behavior of the myopic policy is qualitatively similar to that of the optimal policy. Further, the myopic policy performs better than other policies often used in practice, such as the Bayes policy and m-strike policies. The myopic policy can be implemented easily in a decision support system that supplements an IDS to mitigate the base-rate fallacy and to improve the value of the IDS.
Citation - Scopus: 7
Leverage, Uncertainty and Investment Decisions
(Elsevier B.V., 2020-05) Kenç, Turalay; Driver, Ciaran
We explore the role of taxes on stimulating investment decisions for levered firms under cash flows and investment costs uncertainty using the adjusted present value-based real options approach developed by Myers and Read (2019). We extend their work to consider combined tax credits and uncertain investment costs. We then run a numerical analysis to quantify the impact of uncertainty, corporate tax and investment tax credit in stimulating investments.
Citation - Scopus: 254
The Relative Influence of Advice From Human Experts and Statistical Methods on Forecast Adjustments
(Wiley, 2009) Onkal, Dilek; Goodwin, Paul; Thomson, Mary; Gönül, Sinan; Pollock, Andrew
Decision makers and forecasters often receive advice from different sources including human experts and statistical methods. This research examines, in the context of stock price forecasting, how the apparent source of the advice affects the attention that is paid to it when the mode of delivery of the advice is identical for both sources. In Study L two groups of participants were given the same advised point and interval forecasts. One group was told that these were the advice of a human expert and the other that they were generated by a statistical forecasting method. The participants were then asked to adjust forecasts they had previously made in light of this advice. While in both cases the advice led to improved point forecast accuracy and better calibration of the prediction intervals, the advice which apparently emanated from a statistical method was discounted much more severely. In Study 2, participants were provided with advice from two Sources. When the participants were told that both sources were either human experts or both were statistical methods, the apparent statistical-based advice had the same influence on the adjusted estimates as the advice that appeared to conic from a human expert. However when the apparent Sources of advice were different, much greater attention was paid to the advice that apparently came from a human expert. Theories of advice utilization are used to identify why the advice of a human expert is likely to be preferred to advice from a statistical method. Copyright (C) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Role Expectations From Doctors and Effects on Nonmedical Outcomes
( Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019) Tarı Kasnakoğlu, Berna; Pak, Halil
Rationale, aims, and objectives The predominant assumption of doctor professionalism may be prone to unpredicted alterations in the face of "a new age of doctoring." The aim in this study is to explore one dimension in the doctor-patient dyadic relationship: the face-to-face interaction between doctors and patients and whether satisfaction of role expectations affects service outcomes as perceived by the patient-consumer. Methods In the first qualitative phase, 10 physicians and 11 patients were interviewed in-depth for the purposes of understanding the variations in role expectations from doctors. These details were then used to construct the scenarios to be used in the second quantitative phase. Scenario-based experimental data were collected using a cross-sectional sample consisting of 432 individuals. Results Although positive emotions lead to positive outcomes when the doctor is role-congruent, positive emotions lead to even better outcomes when the doctor is behaving too friendly. In addition, negative emotions lead to negative outcomes in both scenarios; however, outcomes become worse when the doctor is role-incongruent. Conclusions Role expectations play a moderating role between emotions and service outcomes. The medical performance can be perceived good or bad depending on whether the doctor smiles "too much" or not. Results are discussed within the context of role expectation theory and the changing nature of service relationships in the health care sector.
Vulnerable Desires: Impoverished Migrant Consumers in Turkey
(Sage Publications Inc, 2015) Sandıkçı, Özlem; Tarı, Berna; Ömeraki, Şahver
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