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Küçük ve orta ölçekli işletmelerin proje yönetimi kapasitesinin araştırılması: İzmir, Türkiye'de bilgi teknolojileri şirketleri üzerine bir araştırma
(2020) Yaraşgil, Sinem; Özerim, Gökay
This research aims at investigating the capacity of project management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) by focusing on SMEs in the Information Technologies (IT) sector of Izmir, Turkey. The main objective is to analyze the implementation of project management principles in our sample group. Besides the management process, this research also reveals technical possibilities and economic opportunities through the prepared in-depth interview questions, and the interactions of these essential elements with each other. Only the SMEs working in the IT industry were picked as a target population of this study and a sample group was created. These SMEs are located especially in technoparks and business centers and a list was prepared based on the web search. SMEs were contacted via LinkedIn and project managers or entrepreneurs were selected as a contact. A short brief that explained the research objective was shared via direct message and interviews were scheduled with responding SMEs. The face-to-face interview was selected as a data collection method and it ensured direct communication with interviewees. Thanks to face-to-face interviews, the in-depth interview questions were able to clarify as may be required and the misunderstanding risk was reduced. The project management process in SMEs is analyzed with a detailed examination and comparison of the organizational structures of companies. Before the project management process, the distribution of responsibilities or roles is revealed by comparing SMEs and large companies. As a result of this comparison, guidelines are given on how entrepreneurs will choose the methods they need to apply during the establishment phase. A detailed explanation was provided on how project management is indispensable in business life from past to present and in which areas it directly affects efficiency. This study also examines the digital tools that are used in the project management process both internally and externally. The most preferable tools and applications are considered on a preferential basis by their features and benefits. In addition to that, statistical results show that entrepreneurs directly affect the Turkish economy and offer new employment opportunities by taking financial supports and government grants. Furthermore, the result of this research shows that SMEs in the IT sector widely use digital tools since they already realize the importance of technology in the 21st century. Keywords: small and medium-sized enterprises, Turkey, project management, information technologies, project management capacity.
Teaching Europe and the Middle East at universities in Turkey
(Manchester University Press, 2023) Aylin Güney; Emre Iseri; Gökay Özerim; Güney, Aylin; Özerim, Gökay; İşeri, Emre
In parallel with the increasingly complex multidimensional and multilayered features of International Relations (IR) the importance of IR departments and their curricula has also gained importance worldwide. In this regard Turkey has not been free of these developments in particular due to its geopolitical location at the intersection of Europe and the Middle East. The end of the Cold War precipitated various chain reactions in Turkey’s immediate neighbourhood. In this context the country has begun to adopt new activism in the Middle East and intensified its EU accession process. Hence it has become imperative for Turkish higher education to increase the diversification of courses on regional studies in IR departments in such a fashion as to reveal the changing nature of IR and Turkey’s new engagements. Against this background this chapter explores the curricular practices of teaching courses on Europe and the Middle East based on a research sample obtained from the IR departments of the top fifty universities in Turkey. By analysing the syllabi of European and Middle East courses it addresses the question of how Turkish ‘exceptionalism’ and ‘liminality’ features that characterise Turkish foreign policy are reflected in the teaching in IR departments. © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The role of migration in the United Kingdom's EU referendum
(Peter Lang AG, 2018) Mehmet Gökay Özerim; Özerim, Gökay
Immigration has been one of the most controversial issues both before and after the United Kingdom's referendum on whether or not to leave the European Union also known as Brexit. However the function of the discourse on immigration during the referendum process shows that immigration is not limited to the problem of refugees. Debates on immigration include the status of immigrants already living in the UK the status of other EU citizens working in the UK the post-Brexit situation of British citizens living in other EU countries and the threat of increasing xenophobia. This study analyses the contexts and ways in which the immigration issue was used during the referendum process by examining these debates before and after the referendum. © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.