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Adaptation of hospitality service quality scales for marina services
(Elsevier Ltd, 2016) Ferika Özer Sari; Cagri Kaderoglu Bulut; Ige Pirnar; Bulut, Cagri; Pirnar, Ige; Sari, Ferika Ozer
Main purpose of this study is to reveal the effects of service quality perceptions of yachtsmen on their satisfaction repurchase and recommendation intensions towards "Five Gold Anchors" awarded marinas in Turkey. Research was conducted in four languages on 246 yachtsmen from 19 nations. Confirmatory factor analysis is used for data purification of Marinas' Service Quality Dimensions. Multiple regression analyses are used to test the research hypotheses. Besides putting forward a sector specific service quality instrument results revealed significant recommendations on how to increase the degree of yachtsmen's satisfaction towards their service providers for both researchers and practitioners. © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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AIRPORT SERVICE QUALITY: A RECONCEPTUALIZATION AND A PRACTICAL APPLICATION ON THE NON-AERONAUTICAL SERVICES
(VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECH UNIV, 2020) Cagri Bulut; Sefer Aydogan; Aydogan, Sefer; Bulut, Cagri
In line with the advancing airway capability the non-acronautical business opportunities at airports are also in growth. To attract more passengers or to generate extra income over non-aeronautical services the airport decision-makers need to evaluate the quality of their services. This study aims at introducing an expanded approach to improve airport service quality aspects of the non-aeronautical business opportunities. Given the increasing number of airports passengers prefer airports which provide better or extra services compared to others. To reveal the airport service quality (ASQ) aspects together with the quality department experts we conducted a qualitative study that put forward six significant dimensions for an effective evaluation of airport service quality at an airport. Based on the results of the qualitative study we designed the sector-specific questionnaire and its empirical data is conducted over 250 passengers through a face-to-face survey. Survey results introduce a practical assessment tool for the use of airport managers to gather strategic inputs on their strategic plans and quality implications. Results also contribute to the literature by presenting a comprehensive understanding of the airport service quality.
AKADEMİK GİRİŞİMCİLİK YÖNELİMİNİN KARİYER MOTİVASYONU ÜZERİNE ETKİSİNİ BELİRLEMEYE İLİŞKİN NİCEL BİR ARAŞTIRMA
(2023) Cagri Bulut; FIGEN SÜTAY; Bulut, Cagri; Sütay, Fıgen
Girişimciliğin ekonomik gelişme ve istihdam üzerindeki etkilerini ortaya koyan araştırma sayısının artması girişimcilik ve girişimciliğe ilişkin kavramlara yönelik ilginin de hızla artmasına yol açmaktadır. Bilim insanlarının kariyerleri boyunca yaptıkları araştırmalar edindikleri bilgi ve deneyimlerini ticarileştirmeleri ekonomik ve sosyal fayda yaratmaları akademik girişimciliğin çıkış noktası olarak ifade edilmektedir. Üniversitelerin öğretme ve araştırma görevlerini ekonomik kalkınma ile uyumlaştırılması sonucu ortaya çıkan girişimci üniversite kavramı akademik girişimcilik kavramına temel oluşturmaktadır. Bu çalışmada akademik personelin girişimcilik yönelimlerinin akademik personelin kariyer motivasyonuna etkileri araştırılmaktadır. Çalışmanın temel amacı ise, kariyer motivasyonunu belirleyen akademik girişimcilik boyutlarını belirlemektir. Araştırma verisi Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi (DEÜ) bünyesinde fakültelerde çalışan 1425 akademik personel ile gerçekleştirilen ve 81 cevabın elde edildiği online anket ile toplanmıştır. Yapılan analizler sonucunda elde edilen bulgulara göre, kariyer motivasyonunu belirleyen akademik girişimcilik boyutunun yenilikçilik olduğu söylenebilir.
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Business Performance
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2013) Cagri Kaderoglu Bulut; Ozge Can; Can, Ozge; Bulut, Cagri
[No abstract available]
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Does Really Innovative Work Behaviors of Emloyees Mediate the Innovative Performance Impacts of Intrapreneurship?
(ACAD CONFERENCES LTD, 2011) Cagri Bulut; Seray Begum Samur; Duygu Seckin Halac; Samur, Seray Begum; Halac, Duygu Seckin; Bulut, Cagri; H Fulford
In today's highly dynamic and innovation based competitive environments force corporations to develop distinctive employee skills and competencies which were difficult to replicate or to imitate by the competitors. Resource based view suggests that developing deploying and protecting intangible assets are crucial to gain and sustain competitive advantage. Internal corporate entrepreneurship (intrapreneurship) plays the key role for sustainable rejuvenation of ultimate organizational performance. The literature on intrapreneurship and organizational innovativeness has focused on the managerial competencies and managerial tools to achieve effective intrapreneurship rather than the role of employees who are the essence of organizations. In the literature there are five managerial tools that are needed to support an innovation oriented entrepreneurial climate within the large organizations to orient employees to be more entrepreneurial and thereby innovative, namely (1) management support (2) time availability (3) individual freedom and autonomy (4) reward availability/reinforcement (5) management's and employees' absorption capacity of risk. Innovation is the process of discovery diffusion action. In this multi stage process ideas are captured, filtered funded developed modified clarified and eventually commercialized. Therefore this study complements the literature by taking into account the innovative work behavior of employee as a mediator factor with a multi-dimensional structure between intrapreneurial climatic factors and innovative performance. Management support reward system autonomy tolerance for failure and allocation of free time have been employed as the compounds of innovative work behavior where idea generation idea promotion and idea realization have been employed as innovative work behavior. Survey method was used to conduct the data of this study. All scales have been adopted from existing literature. 65 manufacturing firms without any industrial limitations were chosen randomly for the field study. The final sample includes 199 respondents from 45 different firms mostly located in Izmir Ataturk Organized Industrial Zone and ITOB Organized Industrial Zone. The respondents of this study were the employees' of manufacturing firms from all hierarchical levels. After collecting the surveys and processing survey data into SPSS 17.0 statistical software Exploratory Factor Analysis was used to test the validity of the scales. Reliability tests of each factor structure and their Pearson correlations scores were calculated and presented with descriptive statistics. Finally multiple regression analysis was utilized to test the hypotheses of the study. The results indicate that intrapreneurial climate dimensions of management support and reward availability together with civic virtue are strong drivers of Innovative Work Behaviors (IWBs) these types of behaviors are also effective instruments for the Innovative Performance of the firms which lead to effective functioning of the organization in terms of manufacturing new product and financial performance.
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ENVIRONMENTALIST PREDISPOSITIONS AND RECYCLED PRODUCT PREFERENCES
(INT JOURNAL CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS & ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES, 2020) Cagri Bulut; Murat Nazli; Bulut, Cagri; Nazli, Murat
The study aims to uncover environmentalist predispositions based on the Big Five Personality with support of the theory of planned behavior and examines the effects of environmentalists' predispositions on the recycled product preferences. Based on the big five personality traits this paper proposes a typology on the environmentalists' predispositions for conscious consumption studies which consists of concern pleasure consciousness beliefs and norms. The method of the empirical study is a self-reported survey with a sample of 256 participants from a developing economy. The results of the factor analyses confirm the five-dimensional theoretical construct of individuals' predispositions towards environmentalism. Furthermore multiple regression analyses for testing the associations of the environmentalist predispositions on recycled product preferences disclose that among five of the dimensions environmentalist consciousness environmentalist beliefs and environmentalist norms have joint effects on preferring a recycled product. This study is one of the preliminary attempts that examines the effects of environmentalist predispositions on a conscious consumption choice specifically on preferring the recycled products as a green purchasing behavior type.
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Financial performance impacts of Corporate Entrepreneurship in Emerging markets: A case of Turkey
(2008) Bora Aktan; Cagri Kaderoglu Bulut; Aktan, Bora; Bulut, Cagri
The aim of this study is to examine the effects of four sub-dimensions of corporate entrepreneurship (hereafter CE) on firms' financial performance in Turkey. The research of this study has been conducted from 2032 respondents of 312 firms which are largely active in Turkey as an emerging economy. Concerning research data have been gathered by the SOBAG Project 104K117 which is supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. To test the financial performance effects of CE the scales for the dimensions of CE and financial performance have been adopted from the existing literature. A series of reliability and validity tests are conducted for the measurement of the scales. Confirmatory factor analysis and multiple regression analysis have been conducted to test the hypotheses. The results of this research will provide guidelines to help investors managers and also academicians to comprehend the importance of CE well on the way to create financially successful firm performance and sustain it in developing countries. © EuroJournals Inc. 2008. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Gen Z travel intentions and museum visits in the metaverse: case of Egypt- Scotland- and Turkey
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2025) Murat Nazli; Cagri Bulut; Yasin Ozarslan; Nazli, Murat; Bulut, Cagri; Ozarslan, Yasin
This early-stage study explores Gen Z's travel intentions and virtual museum visits in the metaverse by experiencing Egypt Scotland and Turkey. The subjective perception and judgment of Gen Z users are investigated in the immersive environment. Semi-structured interviews and laboratory sessions took place with 20 volunteers in three studies. Study 1 and Study 2 reveal different views of Gen Z concerning their travel intentions as two open-air experiences in the metaverse. Study 3 shows Gen Z perspectives of a virtual museum visit as an indoor experience. Through this study we could form a link between the metaverse and Gen Z travel intentions using two travel applications for Egypt and Scotland and a museum application for Turkey which has rarely been discussed before. The study also guides an experience interaction interface design for VR 360 video and future-related tourism products and services for Gen Z users. The study illuminates the travel and metaverse relationship for future studies for practitioners and researchers.
Girişimsel pazarlamanın firma performansına etkisi
(2013) İGE PIRNAR; Duygu HALAÇ SEÇKİN; Ayşenil Duygu ÖZTÜRK; Cagri Bulut; Bulut, Cagri; Seçkin, Duygu Halaç; Pırnar, İge; Öztürk, Ayşenil Duygu
Bu çalışmanın amacı “girişimsel pazarlama” boyutlarının firma performansı üzerine etkilerinin araştırılmasıdır. Bu amaçla İzmir Atatürk Organize Sanayi Bölgesi’nde plastik ve kauçuk sektöründe faaliyet gösteren 45 adet firmadan 139 çalışan ile anket yöntemi yoluyla toplanan veriler doğrultusunda analizler yapılmıştır. Faktör analizleri sonucunda girişimsel pazarlama proaktif odaklılık risk alma odaklılık müşteri odaklı yenilikçilik kaynak odaklılık değer odaklılık ve fırsat odaklılık olarak çok boyutlu bir yapı göstermiş performans kriterleri ise finansal performans ve yenilik performansı olarak iki boyutlu oluşmuştur. Çoklu regresyon analizleri sonucunda ise girişimsel pazarlama boyutlarından değer odaklılık ve risk alma odaklılığın yenilik performansı üzerinde ve değer odaklılığın ise finansal performans üzerinde anlamlı ve olumlu etkileri olduğu saptanmıştır.
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship Assessment Initiatives: A Critical View
(ACAD CONFERENCES LTD, 2013) Cagri Bulut; Eda Evla Mutlu; Murat Nazli; Mutlu, Eda Evla; Bulut, Cagri; Nazli, Murat; P Teirlinck; S Kelchtermans; F DeBeule
Entrepreneurship and Innovation related regional and national development has become a phenomenon for the last decades, however the outcomes of these endeavors have attracted many researchers agencies and international organisations such as European Commission Global Entrepreneurship Monitor etc. through their projects programs departments or initiatives. Therefore this study examines the worldwide known six Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiatives (here after IEIs) assessing of entrepreneurship and innovation. The main IEIs are (IUS) Innovation Union Scoreboard GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) GII (Global Innovation Index) and ICI (Innovation Capacity Index) GEINDEX (Global Entrepreneurship Index) and WCY (World Competitiveness Yearbook). This research includes the observation of some commonly used IEIs in terms of sample size the quality (research and development technology creative output expenditure on research and development level of research whether it is firm country or employer entrepreneur level etc.) and the quantity of indices measurement method survey frequency and some other specifications. Indices are compared with each other to expose both the similarities and the differences, however there is still a big gap on the comparison of state and degree of entrepreneurship and innovation in nations. Although there are some obstacles in the measurement of IEIs they present a broader point of view to the researchers and practitioners. As a result of the diversity in measurement methods sampling sizes indicators etc. there is not a single method for evaluating these indicators which makes it difficult to make a comparison. As a result for the proper establishment of IEIs standardization of the initiatives should be considered. This research sheds a light for further scientific debates in this field of study.
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Innovative Performance Impacts of Corporate Entrepreneurship:: An Empirical Research in Turkey
(Intellectual Property Publ House, 2008) Yilmaz, Cengiz; Bulut, Cagri
Increasing intensity of competitiveness in local and global markets has made for both competing firms and interested academies to explore and identify innovative consequences of competitive firm actions, and particularly those of Corporate Entrepreneurship, important study areas. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of four prime dimensions of corporate entrepreneurship, namely, proactiveness, risk taking, innovativeness, and competitive aggressiveness, on the innovative performances of firms located in a developing country, Turkey. A probability sample of firms from a multitude of different industries has been drawn first and then mail surveys have been used for a two-phase data collection process. The final sample includes 2032 respondents from 312 different firms. Confirmatory factor analysis has been used to validate the measures, and multiple regression analysis has been utilized to test the hypothesized effects of entrepreneurship dimensions on firm-level innovative performance. The results indicate that entrepreneurship dimensions of proactiveness and innovativeness are strong drivers of innovative performance, whereas an entrepreneurial culture that emphasizes risk taking and competitive aggressiveness does not seem to relate in a significant manner with innovativeness.
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Linking incremental and radical creativity to product and process innovation with organisational knowledge
(EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, 2022) Cagri Bulut; Tugberk Kaya; Ahmed Muneeb Mehta; Rizwan Qaiser Danish; Bulut, Cagri; Kaya, Tugberk; Danish, Rizwan Qaiser; Mehta, Ahmed Muneeb
Purpose This study examines the effects of incremental and radical creativity on both product and process innovation by considering the moderating roles of knowledge sharing in intensity and quality. Design/methodology/approach Primary research is conducted over 250 employees from service and manufacturing firms operating in Pakistan. Principal component analyses are conducted for the data reduction process and multiple regression analyses are performed to test the research hypotheses. Findings Knowledge sharing intensity and the quality of knowledge sharing moderate the effects of radical creativity on product and process innovation that predicts firm performance. Besides the research presents the differences in the impacts of incremental and radical creativity with the moderations of organisational knowledge on product and process innovations between the service and manufacturing firms and implications for practitioners and researchers. Research limitations/implications This work represents a sample from manufacturing and service firms operating in Pakistan. Still caution is the generalising specific results to other organisations in either service or manufacturing domains or manufacturing. Practical implications While boosting creativity in organisations knowledge sharing practices differ for sector domains. For service firms knowledge intensity is essential while knowledge quality is meaningful for manufacturing firms. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature at the crossroads of organisational creativity and innovation twofold, the first is to investigate the combined effects of incremental and radical creativity on product and process innovation separately. The second is to examine the moderator roles of knowledge sharing practices of knowledge quality and intensity while predicting product and process innovation with incremental and radical creativity.
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Organizational support for intrapreneurship and its interaction with human capital to enhance innovative performance
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2010) Lutfihak Alpkan; Cagri Kaderoglu Bulut; Gürhan Günday; Gündüz Ulusoy; K. Kilic; Alpkan, Lutfihak; Bulut, Cagri; Kilic, Kemal; Ulusoy, Gunduz; Gunday, Gurhan
Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the direct and interactive effects of organizational support and human capital on the innovative performance of companies. Individual effects of the organizational support dimensions namely: management support for generating and developing new business ideas allocation of free time convenient organizational structures concerning in particular decentralization level or decision-making autonomy appropriate use of incentives and rewards and tolerance for trial-and-errors or failures in cases of creative undertakings or risky project implementations are also to be investigated. Design/methodology/approach: The study develops and tests a theoretical research model where the organizational support dimensions are the independent variables innovative performance is the dependent variable and the human capital has a moderating role in this relationship via a questionnaire study covering 184 manufacturing firms in Turkey. Findings: Among the individual direct effects of the dimensions of organizational support management support for idea development and tolerance for risk taking are found to exert positive effects on innovative performance. Availability of a performance based reward system and free time have no impact on innovativeness while work discretion has a negative one. As for the role of human capital (HC) it is found to be an important driver of innovative performance especially when the OS is limited. However when the levels of both HC and OS are high innovative performance does not increase any further. Originality/value: Two distinct research streams namely organizational support literature and human capital literature have already focused on their individual impacts on the innovative performance. However a combination of these separate streams was not tried before. The paper discusses and investigates what will happen when both positive drivers interact with each other. Moreover it also investigates how organizational support and human capital are complementary. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Örgütsel sosyalleşme: Bir literatür taraması
(2013) Gonca ASLAN; Aylin ARAZA; Cagri Bulut; Araza, Aylin; Bulut, Cagri; Aslan, Gonca
Günümüzde iş görme şekillerinin ve araçlarınınmodern iş yaşamında değişmesi bilgiekonomisinin ürettiği bilgi işçilerinin istihdamdaki tutumları ve beklentileri örgütsel sosyalleşmeninyeniden güncellenerek tartışılması ve araştırılması açısından önem arz etmektedir. Örgütselsosyalleşme üzerine gelecekte yapılacak çalışmaların yazında ihtiyaç duyulan kavramın düzey vesonuç ölçümlerinin sadeleştirilmesine yönelik olması beklenmektedir (Liang ve Hsieh 2008:212). Buçalışma bir işgören adayının kariyer hedefleri doğrultusunda çalışmaya başlayacağı işyerinin tam birüyesi olma sürecini hızlandıran örgütsel sosyalleşme taktiklerini mevcut yazından yola çıkarak ilgilifaktörlerle sentezlemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu bağlamda örgütsel sosyalleşmenin farklı çalışmalarda görece farklı şekillerde ilişkilendirildiği kavramlardan bazıları da kavramın nomolojik ağ oluşumunadestek sağlamak üzere ele alınmıştır.
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Senior Millionaires and their Travel Behaviours: the Case of Turkey
(SPRINGER INT PUBL AG, 2023) Cagri Bulut; Murat Nazli; Bulut, Cagri; Nazli, Murat
This study is one of the preliminary studies in the literature which explores and analyzes the travel behaviour of an under-researched segment the millionaire senior tourists who are 70 years old and above living on the west coast of Turkey. The sample consists of 22 respondents and we reached them via snowball sampling technique. Grounding the research on the socioemotional selectivity theory we attempt to explain the senior tourists' objectives and motivations for travel and their consumption behaviour within the tourism industry. Findings reveal several preferences of senior tourists while traveling to a specific destination. They travel more frequently than before still have the desire to explore new destinations as long as they are healthy and love to socialize with people. They look for unique services during their travel experience. The study enlightens the field of senior tourism from a millionaires' perspective for the researchers practitioners and marketers in the tourism and hospitality industry.
Service Quality in Private Secondary Schools: Extension to EduQUAL with a case from Turkey
(2021) Cagri Bulut; sefer aydogan; Aydogan, Sefer; Bulut, Cagri
Previous research on measuring the service quality presents alternativeassessment instruments of SERVQUAL by customizing the generic indicators of servicequality to sector-specific features for various service markets. EduQUAL is the specificmethod of SERVQUAL assessment for measuring the service quality of educationalservices. This study contributes to the EduQUAL literature by extending with a newdimension covering the quality assessment of the core educational services withempirical evidence generated in 2019 over the secondary-school students of privateschools operating in Turkey. Therefore the current study aims to extend the EduQUALassessment of the private chain schools and aims to which of these successful schools'service quality indicators predict student satisfaction and student loyalty. The study'sdata represents 305 students' perceptions of a private school operating in Turkey withmore than 100 branches. The factor analysis results yield a new dimension related tocore educational services. The regression analyses' results reveal that the coreeducational services predict only student satisfaction with other service qualityindicators. Empathy-related services at schools are the most significant indicators of theEduQUAL both on student satisfaction and student loyalty.
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Social Innovation and Psychometric Analysis
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2013) Cagri Bulut; Hakan Eren; Duygu Seckin Halac; Halac, Duygu Seckin; Bulut, Cagri; Eren, Hakan; K Maree
Social innovation is defined as new ideas or solution proposals to the needs of humans which have not been fulfilled to increase their life standards and welfare. Although after 1990s social innovation has started to attract academicians attentions there are few empirical studies on this subject yet. The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable social innovation instrument at individual level. In this regard a comprehensive field study was conducted. The field study consists of 767 senior university students from various faculties of 10 universities reflecting different geographical and socio- economic levels to provide a country-wide generalization. According to the findings a reliable and valid social innovation scale is employed unidimensionally with eight items. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Sosyal yenilikçilik: Bir ölçek geliştirme çalışması
(2014) Duygu HALAÇ SEÇKİN; Cagri Bulut; hakan eren; Bulut, Cagri; Seçkin, Duygu Halaç; Eren, Hakan
Özellikle 1990’dan sonra bilimsel çalışmaların yoğunlaştığı sosyal yenilikçilik kavramı insanların hayat standartlarını ve refahlarını yükseltebilmek daha önce karşılanmamış ihtiyaçlara çözüm önerileri ya da yeni fikirler sunabilmek olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı Türk kültürüne uygun birey düzeyinde geçerli ve güvenilir bir sosyal yenilikçilik ölçeğinin geliştirilerek özellikle Yönetim yazınına kazandırılmasıdır. Bu doğrultuda anket yönteminin kullanıldığı farklı coğrafi ve sosyo-ekonomik bölgelerden üniversitelerin farklı fakültelerinden son sınıf öğrencilerinin katıldığı bir saha çalışması tasarlanmıştır. Yapılan analizler sonucu tek boyutlu sekiz maddeden oluşan geçerli ve güvenilir bireysel sosyal yenilikçilik eğilimini ölçen bir ölçek geliştirilmiştir.
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Strategic orientations toward technological innovativeness in the marble industry
(Springer Nature, 2021) Cagri Kaderoglu Bulut; Secil Pelin Aka; Murat Nazlı; Pelin Aka, Secil; Bulut, Cagri; Nazli, Murat
While the sanctions and tariffs of the USA towards the Chinese Marble Industry are increasing the current study uncovers the strategic orientations of leading marble suppliers of the world and their effects on technological innovativeness. Turkey is the leader of world marble production and it is at the central point of the world marble trade between the west and the east. The sample is from the marble enterprises participating in the most significant international trade fairs one of Turkey's most competitive sectors. Data of the study is from 53 respondents of 898 firms participated among 200 national marble firm visits using a survey method. Factor analyses resulted in four theoretical components of strategic orientations: opportunity orientation learning orientation technology orientation and customer orientation. The correlation analyses’ results showed that three strategic orientations (learning technology and opportunity orientation) have significant relations with technological innovativeness. Multiple regression analysis results revealed that opportunity orientation is the main predictor of technological innovativeness in the marble industry. From professionals' perspectives in the sector and researchers in innovation management the study presents the significance of identifying opportunities for technological innovation. The study presents insights for both researchers and decision-makers in the marble industry. © 2025 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Sustainable Entrepreneurship for Business Opportunity Recognition: Analysis of an Awareness Questionnaire among Organisations
(MDPI, 2022) Helena Fidlerová; Augustín Stareček; Natália Vraňaková; Cagri Kaderoglu Bulut; Michael Keaney; Bulut, Cagri; Keaney, Michael; Fidlerova, Helena; Starecek, Augustin; Vranakova, Natalia
An important challenge for the future is focusing on sustainability in life and business. The three elements of sustainability (economic environmental and social) defined in 17 factors by the United Nations (UN) as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) may therefore be the main drivers of business competitiveness and opportunity recognition. The main aim of the article is to identify the awareness level of sustainability and sustainable development goals in the context of business opportunity areas by analysing the results of a survey of organisations in six countries (Finland Slovakia Italy Austria Spain and Turkey). A multilingual questionnaire administered in six participating countries was used as a collection tool to determine the organisation’s level of awareness regarding the SDGs. A research questionnaire was filled in by 238 respondents providing a cross-cultural view of their attitudes knowledge and future interest in sustainability and the SDGs. The obtained results indicate differences in the approach to sustainability issues the scope of knowledge interest competencies in sustainable development and SDGs and the content of implementation of sustainability and SDGs in organisations in different sectors regions and countries. Further statistical evaluation of the research hypotheses states the significant relationship between the two variables: sustainable strategy and the designation of a responsible employee in each organisation rs = 0.677 (α = 0.05). It is essential to eliminate the gap in the cross-cultural approach and knowledge in engaging with sustainable strategy and its implementation in current and future organisation activities in the context of sustainability and SDGs in order to enhance opportunities for the growth of sustainability-focused entrepreneurship across different sectors and countries. © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.