Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the relationship between board process attributes and company performance of family‐owned companies within an emerging country context. Design/methodology/approach – A survey questionnaire was developed and conducted on a sample of privately‐held...

Purpose – The study investigates the internet‐based electronic commerce (EC) adoption profile of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in Turkey as well as the factors affecting their willingness to adopt EC usage. Design/methodology/approach – EC adoption is measured by a composite...

Purpose – The principal aim of this study is to determine the critical factors of market orientation (MO) and to measure its effect on new service development (NSD) and financial performance of hospital industry in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on a self‐administered...

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of knowledge management (KM) infrastructure and KM processes on the performance of KM practices. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on personal interviews, data were collected from 83 managers from a single...

This paper considers two important aspects of joint venture (JV) activity between Western firms and local partner firms in Turkey. First, the strategic motivation for JV formation is investigated for a sample of Western partner firms. The relative importance of a set of strategic motives is...

This study delineates overall financial characteristics of the Turkish non‐financial firms listed in the Istanbul Stock Exchange across a variety of ownership variables. It essentially compares the performance of affiliates of diversified Turkish business groups with that of unaffiliated...

This paper investigates the nature and extent of Internet use and the role of firm‐ and industry‐specific factors affecting Internet adoption by SMEs in an emerging market economy, Turkey. Based on the evidence from a sample of 237 manufacturing SMEs with Internet access in Turkey, the...

This paper examines the causal relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Turkey using annual data for the period 1968‐2002, by means of cointegration, error‐correction models (ECM) and the augmented vector autoregressive (VAR) methodology developed by Toda...