Bahattin Hamarat

Organizational and occupational identification: Relations to teacher satisfaction and intention to early retirement

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the effects of two work related identification (occupational and organizational) of school teachers on intention to early retirement (withdrawal) and satisfaction with the occupation and satisfaction with the school. It also seeks the influence of perceived external prestige on withdrawal and satisfaction.Design/methodology/approach – An empirical study was carried out at public schools in Canakkale, Turkey. Data collected from 238 teachers were analyzed. The correlations between identification and organizational prestige, desire for early retirement, and overall satisfaction of teachers were tested with several demographic variables such as age, gender, tenure and union membership. Ordinal logistic regression analysis (OLR) was conducted to reveal probabilistic behavior of response variables on the basis of explanatory variables.Findings – The results show that both categories of identification have reverse effect on intention to early retirement, and both categories ...

Festival attendees’ motivations: the case of International Troia Festival

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate underlying motivational dimensions of visitors attending the International Troia Festival (ITF), Canakkale, Turkey. Design/methodology/approach – Surveys with 26 items on six motivational dimensions were empirically tested. Data were collected by a self-administered survey. The study sample comprised attendees of particular festival events which were suitable for survey practice in the ITF lasting for five days. The participants of the survey were the attendees of two theater shows, two conferences, and two folk dance shows. A total of 473 usable forms were obtained from the visitors and processed in the analysis. Findings – Significant differences and relations in motivational dimensions were found on the basis of visitors’ socio-demographic origins. Female visitors are more likely to attend festival events with high motivation of family togetherness and cultural exploration. Also male visitors are more likely to attend the events with more motivation...

Niche overlap – competition and homogeneity in the organizational clusters of hotel population

Competition and attempts to increase market share between organizations play an important role in business ecology. It has been determined that intensity in the institutions and death among organizations especially are of great importance. Intensity and homogeny among the organizational population are very important in the evolutionary process for them to create modern forms of institution. We have used parametric variables to collect a set of data in order to understand competition and niche among organization population. The study investigates how competition and niche affect the cluster of hotel population and their survivability. The founding of each hotel organization is differently constructed internally and different segments of the hotel population respond heterogeneously to the general process of competition. The findings show how niche and different segments of hotel population affect new organizational establishment and the evolutionary dynamics of modern organization structure, using the city center hotels of Canakkale in Turkey.

A sustainable festival management model: the case of International Troia festival

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to propose a sustainable festival management model (SFMM) drawing on data from the International Troia Festival, Canakkale, Turkey. Design/methodology/approach – Three research techniques were used in the study. Survey data examined six motivational dimensions whose importance were tested using the logistic regression analysis. In-depth interviews and observations were analyzed using content analysis. The study sample comprised festival event attendees, members of public and private businesses and NGOs. Findings – The field research indicated that, culture is the main factor, which motivates visitors to attend the festival and also the main theme of the festival that reflects the significant cultural heritage of the city. A SFMM is presented for the International Troia Festival, based on the results of the field research and literature. Research limitations/implications – The findings of this study solely of SFMM were identified during a Turkish festival. Originality...

Evaluation of Turkish Domestic and Foreign Banks By Using Financial Ratios

In banking system, being a domestic or foreign bank can be an especially important managerial success. In the literature, it has been claimed that foreign banks are more successful than domestic ones. The reason for this can be having more global knowledge and using more professional tactics in banking transactions. On the other hand, to be familiar with its societys culture can be an opportunity for domestic banks. In this study, Turkish banks have been evaluated with using financial ratios taking into consideration domestic and foreign equity. The banks have also been ranked according to success. To achieve this, principal components analysis and discriminant analysis have been applied.

Sand in My Eyes Fled Effect: An Evidence from Saudi Arabia

Psychological, cultural, religious and environmental factors affect human decisions and sometimes cause irrational behaviours. Even this is a common truth, traditional economics claims human is rational and many economic theories based on this idea. Behavioural Finance and Behavioural Economics go against this main assertion and postulates human has bounded rationality.

Does Human Stick on Reference Price (Anchoring Bias)? A Social Experiment on Tourism Sector

It has been searched Reference point bias between tourism educated people and others, men vs women, well educated people vs others and young vs seniors. The paper organized as follows: Data and methodology explains how data has been collected and describes the methodology. In the empirical results part, results of experiment as tables have been given. Last part is the conclusion and makes critics about the results. As a result we can report that reference price for sure has an effect on people. When companies advertise their prices, they should definitely give a reference prices to their potential customers but this reference prices should not exceed two prices. The best one is one reference price.