An integrated AHP-TOPSIS framework for foreign direct investment in Turkey

ÇALIK, Ahmet | ÇİZMECİOĞLU, Sinan | AKPINAR, Ayhan

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is seen as an essential part of development due to the contribution of the host country. Profits of FDI such as technology transfers, spillover benefits, and increasing competition have encouraged both of domestic firms and policymakers to attracting FDI. In the course of making investment decisions, foreign investors prefer countries that follow stable economic policies, achieve a certain level of development of financial structure, and have legal regulations that favour foreign capital. Turkey, one of the emerging market economies, met the challenges including ...Daha fazlası

How Do Tablets Compel to Change The Toy Industry: A Research From Consumer Behaviour Perspective

AKPINAR, Ayhan | ÇİZMECİOĞLU, Sinan | ÇALIK, Ahmet

Third-Part Logistics (3PL) Provider Assessment by Using Fuzzy AHP-VIKOR Apptoach

ÇALIK, Ahmet | ÇİZMECİOĞLU, Sinan | AKPINAR, Ayhan

Economic contractions, new communication technologies, and new market search have forced companies more outsourcing by shifting its operations geographically to distant countries. Transferring all or part of the logistics activities to the external firm(s) can be defined as outsourcing. Some of the opportunities to add value to companies through outsourcing: supply security, cost reduction, gaining flexibility in the supply chain, shortening average order cycle times, expanding market boundaries. When it is time to select a third-party logistics (3PL) provider for a particular use, companies s ...Daha fazlası

Tüketicilerin Banka Seçim Kriterleri Ve Bankaların Dağıtım Kanalları Stratejilerinin Çok Kriterli Karar Verme Yöntemleriyle İncelenmesi

AKPINAR, Ayhan

Tüketici davranışlarını ve tüketici eğilimlerini anlamak modern pazarlama çalışmaları açısından son derece önemlidir. Somut nesneler halinde bulunan ürünler hakkında yapılan araştırmalar daha kolay ve yaygınken; soyut olarak algılanan hizmetler hakkında yapılan araştırmalar daha zor ve kısıtlıdır. Ancak bankacılık gibi sektörlerde hizmet pazarlamasının rolü geç de olsa anlaşılmıştır. Günümüzde banka pazarlaması başlığı altında ayrıca çalışılmakta ve uygulanmaktadır. Bu araştırmada tüketicilerin banka seçim kriterleri daha önce literatürde yer alan çalışmalardan yararlanılarak ve uzman görüşler ...Daha fazlası

Why Electric Cars Are Becoming More Preferred on Recent Years: Electric Automobile Market Analysis with Ahp Model

ÇİZMECİOĞLU, Sinan | AKPINAR, Ayhan | ÇALIK, Ahmet

The automobile industry is a big sector that has experienced some incredible growth technologically every year. Firms use the newest features in the latest models to satisfy the customers. Therefore, there is a fierce struggle to get ahead in terms of competition between companies. But in recent years, the race to prevail as a competition has begun to develop not only with ordinary features in automobiles, but with greater revolution. This development is the fact that the automobiles have become electrically operated. Consequently, automobiles have become electric because of reducing carbon em ...Daha fazlası

Investigation of Economic Performance of Islamic Banks In Turkey with An Integrated Multi-Criteria Framework

AKPINAR, Ayhan | ÇİZMECİOĞLU, Sinan | ÇALIK, Ahmet

A Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach for Evaluation of Participation Banks in Turkey based on AHP-TOPSIS

ÇİZMECİOĞLU, Sinan | AKPINAR, Ayhan | ÇALIK, Ahmet

A Decision Model For Lean and Green Supply Chain Management Using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process

ÇİZMECİOĞLU, Sinan | AKPINAR, Ayhan | ÇALIK, Ahmet

Dijital Paraların Çağı: Bitcoin Spekülatif Bir Araç Olmaktan Öteye Geçebilir Mi?

AKPINAR, Ayhan | ÇİZMECİOĞLU, Sinan | ÇALIK, Ahmet

Consumer Behaviour on Android Based Smartphones: Research of The Market Share Increase in Turkey With Ahp Approach

ÇİZMECİOĞLU, Sinan | AKPINAR, Ayhan | ÇALIK, Ahmet

Analytic Hierarchy Process (Ahp) Model for Assessment of Lean and Green Manufacturing Practices: A Case of Konya

ÇİZMECİOĞLU, Sinan | AKPINAR, Ayhan | ÇALIK, Ahmet

In today’s highly competitive marketplace, continuous improvement efforts are one of the best strategy to improve products, services, or processes. To support continuous improvement, companies continually examine their processes to discover and eliminate problems. The impact of Lean and Green Manufacturing Practices (LGMP) that widely deemed as one of the most disseminated production systems have been showed by several authors. What are the emerging issues in research on lean and green manufacturing practices? What are the most preferred practices in lean and green logistics have on the enviro ...Daha fazlası

The impact of neuroticism on compulsive buying behavior: the mediating role of the past-negative time perspective and the moderating role of the consumer’s need for uniqueness

AKSOY, Beyza | AKPINAR, Ayhan | ÖZKARA, Behçet Yalın

Around 300 million people are affected by consumption-related psychological disorders. Despite the prominence of this problem, which impacts 1 in every 20 people, the number of studies on consumption-related problems in marketing is limited. Furthermore, although marketing scholarship focuses on identifying antecedents of compulsive buying, the potential variables involved in this complex mechanism are still unknown. For this purpose, this study investigated (1) the mediating role of past-negative time perspective (PNTP) in the effect of neuroticism on compulsive buying behavior (CBB) and (2) ...Daha fazlası