The primary purpose of this research is to understand the genuine needs of conference attendees regarding conference participation within a multi-dimensional perspective and to identify the priority of those needs via modern QFD methodology. The findings support the early studies on the fact that academic development and networking are the most important needs towards conferences. Following these two primary need categories, organization-related needs are also given importance by the participants of this research. Offering free time for leisure and recreation activities within conference programs is valued more than prearranged social activities by attendees. It is anticipated that the research offers insight into the development and improvement of conference services through the identification of value-adding attributes, which would have practical implications for conference organizers and destination marketers. Unlike most of the extant literature in event management, this research employs the in-depth interviews, focus group, KJ method and AHP within modern QFD methodology.

Most of the studies investigating innovation adoption behavior focus on technological products and services. Considering the significant gap in the conceptualization and operationalization of social innovation adoption behavior in the literature, the aim of this study is to provide an insight to the adoption behavior of social innovations. The effects of perceived usefulness, perceived enjoyment, perceived ease of use and need for approval are investigated within the context of time bank activities in Turkey. The result of the analysis supported the significant effect of all independent variables with a higher impact of perceived enjoyment.

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Owing to the growing attention of consumers towards green-related issues, important number of studies has been devoted to understanding the drivers of green product purchase intention; implying a need to quantitatively synthesize the empirical body of research on the subject. In this sense, extending the theory of planned behavior, the main purpose of this study is to meta-analyze the empirical findings on green product purchase intention and its antecedents. The meta-analytic investigation was performed on 235 effects dependent upon more than 39,000 consumers (N = 39,253). The findings of the meta-analysis reveal that green product purchase intention is most strongly influenced by attitude toward product/brand, followed by brand trust and self-identity, respectively. This research considerably contributes to the pertinent literature by synthesizing and consolidating fragmented empirical evidence on the determinants of green product purchase intention.

Environmental threats like the devastating impacts of climate change and scarcity of resources require companies to operate in a more eco-friendly way and to take the necessary precautions to preserve the environment. In this context, achieving the profit and market share targets and eliminating their environmental risks and negative effects simultaneously pave the way for the effective management of the supply chains. Green supply chain management (GSCM) aiming at the integration of environmental thinking into supply chain management processes like product design, material procurement and selection, production process, delivery of the final product to the consumer, as well as the management of end-of-life is crucial to increase their environmental efficiency. In this regard, The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) emerges as one of the most important efforts to accelerate viable solutions for companies and their supply chains against climate change. Within the scope of the project, the progress of Turkish firms' actions against climate change has been surveyed. Thus, the objective of the current study is to determine the level of the green supply chain activities, and evaluate the adequacy of the current efforts of the firms which responded to the CDP 2017 climate change survey in Turkey and are listed in the industrial category in Istanbul Stock Exchange (BIST) 100. Content analysis will be conducted to analyze the sustainability and/or annual reports of the firms based on the GSCM theoretical framework of Islam et al. (2017). It is hoped that this study will serve as a road map for firms in Turkey in both means of obtaining the gaps in their GSCM efforts and the activities and operations needed to close those gaps.