There is profound evidence that entrepreneurship is not solely a very attention-taking fact in business context, but is also a very prominent subject in terms of scientific research. There are many studies performed to understand the reasons, nature, factors, and results of entrepreneurship in both national and international literature; albeit the focus on the small and medium-sized enterprises in organized industrial zones is not much emphasized in the Turkish literature. An aim of this current study is to contribute to the relevant literature in this sense. Another aim is towards the subject of job satisfaction; there are indeed countless studies considering job satisfaction of the workers and managers in many different contexts in the world. A gap is that the job satisfaction factors of business owners are generally ignored in the literature, and this gap is intended to be partly filled in by this study. Put together, this study investigates the factors, which contribute to the business owners' satisfaction with their own businesses in the Turkish context with an emphasis on small and medium-sized enterprises. For the operationalization of this investigation, owners of small and medium-sized enterprises in Beylikdüzü Organized Industrial Zone are selected and many instruments are combined in order to cover as many job satisfaction factors as possible. Evidence from Turkish literature is also found and noted in this process, with the intention of building upon the current body of research. The results yield that there are multiple factors related to the business owners' job satisfaction.
The issue of leadership, with its roots from ancient times, is perhaps one of the most popular subjects in scientific terms as well as in daily life. Accordingly, this popularity has led to the creation of many leadership paradigms and types. A contemporary approach points out that innovativeness is one of the key elements in the modern business world and is also connected with leadership. This mentioned connection, however, has somehow a vague point: literature reveals two related claims. While some scholars contend that innovativeness should be a component of nearly all leadership types; some emphasize that a distinct type of leadership, innovation leadership, should primarily be taken into consideration. In this sense, this study aims to shed light upon leadership-innovativeness connection in the Turkish context by focusing on the entrepreneur -the business owner oneself. In accordance with this aim, data from small and medium-sized business owners in collected and evaluated. A general result achieved is that business owners are keen on innovativeness and their perceptions of their own leadership features have partial connections with their innovativeness inclination.
Today's business realm involves a vast variety of businesses and business groups; small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) being one of the most prominent. Despite countless investigations from many different business-related perspectives, their innovation perspective is rarely subjected. This current study chooses this perspective and moves a step beyond by considering financing of these businesses. In other words, this study covets to uncover how innovative SMEs are financed, how much these businesses care about professionalization towards financing issues, and what problems they face in their financing processes. Emphasizing innovative SMEs in techno parks in Turkey, this study discloses noteworthy facts from the Turkish context. Major findings pinpoint a low priority towards a professional financing approach and problems related with external and long-term financing opportunities. A noteworthy implication about both external and long-term financing is that they are entirely dependent on exogenous factors. Most of the participating businesses are on micro and small scales, besides being very young.
With its dramatic boosts to effectiveness and efficiency, Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is a crucial tool for business success, thus countless businesses in various industries are inspired to get its benefits. Though these benefits are heavily related to technical matters such as cost, speed and quality; there is also a human side associated with BPR. This study is interested in an odd dimension of this human side: top managers' emotional and spiritual intelligence. More precisely, top managers' emotional and spiritual intelligences are believed to be related with their ideas about the targets and critical success factors of BPR. This study not only scrutinizes this belief, but also fills in a great gap as the literature does not offer a similar research. The operationalization stage of the study includes data from top managers of businesses in İkitelli Organized Industrial Zone (OIZ) and the findings clearly point out that top managers' spiritual intelligence is strongly and positively related with their ideas about BPR whereas there is no connection between their emotional capabilities and their mentioned ideas.
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