Browsing Theses - Business Information Management by Title
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An alternative market for well-being: reconnecting producers and consumers through shared commitments
(Bilkent University, 2017-06)Markets have increased consumption, but not necessarily improved social connections, also a vital part of well-being. Producers and consumers are anonymous to one another in the traditional capitalist paradigm, where each ... -
Essays in asset pricing
(Bilkent University, 2022-01)This thesis is composed of four essays exploring the pricing behavior of different financial markets. In the first essay, we investigate the explanatory power of CAPM beta on cross-section of expected stock returns by allowing ... -
Examination of the four selected food industry sub-sectors in Turkey and in the European Community
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Exploration of USD-DEM exchange rate returns at different time horizons and its implication to risk management
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How do consumers self-license themselves in the context of ethical consumption?: a qualitative approach to moral self-licensing
(Bilkent University, 2022-07)Ethical decision making processes of people have been a locus of research across disciplines because morality is considered as an important yet complex tenet of social life. The research to date has aimed at exploring the ... -
Judgmental forecasts with scenarios and risks
(Bilkent University, 2017-06)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how scenarios and risks influence judgmental forecasts, forecaster’s confidence, and assessments of likelihood of occurrence. In its attempt to identify the impact of scenarios ... -
No silver bullet to boost employee change supportive behaviors: the fit between gender, regulatory focus, and managerial influence tactics
(Bilkent University, 2021-06)Strategic change is central for organizational performance and survival. Managers deploy proactive influence tactics to boost employees’ change supportive behaviors. However, a one-size-fits-all approach is not suitable ... -
Predicting business failures in non-financial turkish companies
(Bilkent University, 2015)The prediction of corporate bankruptcies has been widely studied in the finance literature. This paper investigates business failures in non-financial Turkish companies between the years 2000 and 2015. I compare the ... -
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Sustainable growth of non-financial firms : evidence from emerging economies
(Bilkent University, 2017-03)Higgins’ (1977, 1981, 2008) model of Sustainable growth has been widely used in corporate finance application. This research investigates whether Higgins’ model of sustainable growth is underestimated as suggested by the ... -
Total quality management and an application in a Türkish infantry battalion
(Bilkent University, 2001)This study presents a brief summary of total quality management, its history and its tools; offers an overview of a process improvement procedure by U.S. Department of Defense; and a sample process improvement application ... -
Untangling the complex nature of household food waste drivers through fuzzy cognitive mapping
(Bilkent University, 2021-08)Since reducing household food waste (HFW) has serious environmental, social, and economic implications, researchers across disciplines have investigated this phenomenon from multiple angles and identified a substantial ...
