Browsing by Author "Seckin-Halac, Duygu"

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Historical development of entrepreneurship in the literature
(Springer International Publishing, 2021) Duygu Seckin-Halac; Seckin-Halac, Duygu
This book chapter aims to present a brief and precise historical framework of entrepreneurship by providing readers how the concept emerged which phases it passed and how it is being discussed under which fields of science today. © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Ownership and corporate social responsibility: The power of the female touch
(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2021) Duygu Seckin-Halac; Ece Erdener-Acar; Yasemin Zengin-Karaibrahimoglu; Zengin-Karaibrahimoglu, Yasemin; Erdener-Acar, Ece; Seckin-Halac, Duygu
Using a sample of 26029 firm-year observations over the period 2002-2017 from 4479 firms and 44 countries we examine the relationship between ownership concentration and corporate social responsibility by focusing on the mediating role of board gender diversity and the moderating role of family shareholding. We find that ownership concentration negatively affects corporate social responsibility and the board gender diversity partially mediates this negative effect. Our results indicate that the mediating effect of board gender diversity leads to a 10.65 percent decrease in the impact of ownership concentration on corporate social responsibility. Furthermore moderated path analysis indicates that family shareholding weakens the direct effect of ownership concentration on board gender diversity and its indirect effect on corporate social responsibility. In post hoc analysis we also document that the effect of gender diversity on the board is more prevalent in high gender-egalitarian societies where women are more involved in decision-making. Our study addresses the strategic role of female board members in increasing firms' respect for corporate social responsibility especially in family controlled firms. Thus our results may provide insights to regulators and policymakers to enhance firms' corporate social practices by encouraging women's participation on corporate boards. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Sustainability reporting on labor practices: An examination in Turkey
(IGI Global, 2018) Tutku Seckin-Celik; Duygu Seckin-Halac; Seckin-Celik, Tutku; Seckin-Halac, Duygu
The aim of this chapter is to understand what is being reported in sustainability reports specifically on labor practices. It examines which items to what extent are disclosed in sustainability reports with regard to employees. Using GRI guidelines sustainability reports of Turkish banks are examined. The results of the content analysis show that the most focused indicators are related to workforce composition training and education while the least focused indicators are related to suppliers' labor practices. The authors infer that although organizations are willing to be committed to sustainability their efforts are still limited. In addition organizations in the sample seem to be dedicated to sustainability in order to conform to the regulations and reduce risks for investors in this stage. © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
WOMEN'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN TURKEY: EVIDENCE FROM OECD DATA
(INT JOURNAL CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS & ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES, 2021) Duygu Seckin-Halac; Umut Halac; Halac, Umut; Seckin-Halac, Duygu
Beyond being an employment choice its contributions to national development and being one of the main actors in fighting against unemployment women's entrepreneurship has become a much-debated supported and subjected concept to many research fields. However from a socially constructed perspective after the 1990s the supposedly generic structure of entrepreneurship was considered gendered. Consequently less ambitious less profit-oriented smaller-scale kind of generalized references to women have started to be regarded as the results of measurement mistakes. From this perspective one of the fundamental determinants of women's entrepreneurship is family embeddedness consisting of unpaid household chores and childcare responsibilities. In this context this study aims to quantitatively reveal if family-embeddedness affects the number of women entrepreneurship in Turkey as well as economic factors. In the case of its association it indicates how depending on OECD data. With this aim OECD data covering 2006-2017 is used for a causality analysis. The findings show causal links between economic and non-economic factors and the number of women's entrepreneurship.