Browsing by Author "Erdost, Hayat Ebru"

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    Danışmanlık hizmeti ve ülkemizde yönetim danışmanlığı firmaları
    (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2002) Erdost, Hayat Ebru; Eke, Ali Erkan; İşletme
    Management consulting is an independent professional advisory service assisting managers and organizations in achieving organizational purposes and objectives by solving management and business problems, identifying and seizing new opportunities, enhancing learning and implementing changes. Management consulting which became extremely popular at the beginning of the 1980s, is a rapidly developing profession. The consulting process involves two partners -the client and the consultant. Building this relationship is not easy. To achieve success, both consultants and clients ought to be aware of the human, cultural and other factors that will affect their relationships. The consulting process is formed through the following stages; entry, diagnosis, action planning, implementation, termination. In this study, the state of the management consultancy industry in Turkey, has been analysed from the supply perspective. 43 firms, from the obtained consultancy firms list of "Management Consultants Association" and "turkindex.com", which have responded the questionnaire, have been investigated. In this study, the structure of the consulting firms, their policy, service areas, client-consultant relationships have been examined. There are three main hypothesis. They are: "The content and aim of consulting services are not pre-determined, they are related to the expectations and demands of the clients", "Characteristics of the relationship between the consulting firm and the client is not clear", "Continuous personnel of consulting firms are minimum". The third hypothesis is verified by this study.
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    Yurtdışına yatırım yapan Türk işletmelerinde örgüt yapısı ve karşılaşılan sorunlar:İmalat sektöründe bir araştırma
    (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2007) Yıldırım, Mehmet Halit; Erdost, Hayat Ebru; Uluslararası İlişkiler
    The purpose of this study is to determine how the international structure types used by the Turkish enterprises making direct investments abroad are effected by which dimensions and to determine what problems these enterprises face in their international operations. Furthermore, it is intended to determine the globalization trends of these enterprises regarding senior executive dispositions, strategic positions, global processes, cultural aspects of the enterprise, and performance perceptions.Questionnaire was conducted to 41 companies. In order to analyze the data, Non-parametric Correlation and Kruskal Wallis were used. The analyzes give important and significant results about the variables used in the research model. It is found that there is a relationship between the structure types used by the companies and following variables: the size of the companies, number of countries invested in, diversity of the products manufactured, the ratio of sales and production of affiliates abroad to total sales and production, ownership rate of the affiliates, overseas investment experience of the companies, and the degree of internationalization of the companies. No relationship is found between the structure types and degree of centralization, investment strategies (Greenfield investment, joint-venture, purchase, merger and etc..) for the international markets, and employment approaches.In this research, the level of globalization of the companies investing abroad were evaluated in context of the executives, cultural aspects, processes, strategies, structures, and the perceived performance of the companies. As a result, it was found that the Turkish companies? globalization tendency is more than localization tendency.In this research, it was found that the Turkish companies investing abroad have important problems in selecting the expatriate executives. In addition, application differences between the headquarters and the affiliates abroad caused some problems. Those application differences are such as coordination, auditing, reorganization and accounting. According to the results of this research, these companies do not have any problems concerning communication, finance, manufacture of adequate products for the consumer needs and wants in the countries of operation, and formal relations.