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PurposeThe field of strategic management mainly concerns with the achievement and sustainability of competitive advantage since the sustainability of strategic competitive advantage is more challenging. The concept of innovation can also be regarded as a to respond continuously changing environmental conditions and to sustain firm profits. The aim of this paper is to examine the mediating role of organizational innovation for the impact of strategic agility on firm performance and to determine the relationship among variables. Although there is a significant amount of work on organizational innovation, literature is still lacking in the debate on strategic agility and firm performance.Design/methodology/approachAn online questionnaire was administered to 216 firms operating in the Sakarya Organized Industrial Zone (Marmara Region of Turkey) during September–December 2019 and the data were analyzed using structural equation analysis for hypothesis testing.FindingsResults reveal that strategic agility has a positive impact on both firm performance (ß = 0.895) and organizational innovation (ß = 0.854), and organizational innovation (ß = 0.485) plays a partial mediating role on this relationship.Originality/valueThe results of this study improve our understanding of how these factors affect firm performance in the organized industrial zone.

The aim of this paper, clustering, which is an important model in the development of the countries and the concept of innovation have been reviewed together. The most prominent feature of the industry is to produce Technology. Countries to focus on knowledge-intensive industries and businesses as a result of regional cluster policies for innovation is seen that there is a relation between. The samples obtained over the world and have tried to propose solutions for Turkey. Clustering is an important model for an innovational development In Turkey.

ÖZÖzellikle 90'lı yıllardan itibaren tüm sektörlerde açık bir şekilde artan rakip sayısı ve buna bağlı olarak artan rekabet sebebiyle işletmeler müşteri beklentilerini karşılama konusunda çok daha titiz davranmaya başlamışlardır. Artan rekabetle birlikte müşterilerin daha bilinçli ürün terihinde bulunmaları ile birlikte de kalite kavramı çok daha önemli bir noktaya ulaşmıştır. Bu durum diğer tüm sektörlerde olduğu gibi gıda sektöründe de dikkat edilmesi gereken bir durum haline gelmiştir. Bu çalışmanın amacı günümüzde artan önemi nedeniyle kalitenin istatistiksel tekniklerle ölçülmesinin ortaya koyduğu yararları belirtmek ve yorumlarının işletme açısından nasıl yapılacağı konusunda bilgilendirme sağlamaktır. Uygulama da gıda sektörü ve süt ürünleri seçilmesinin amacı ise istatistiksel kalite kontrol teknikleri ile bu sektör de daha önce çalışmaların yapılmamış olmasıdır. Uygulama verileri Malatya ilinde faaliyet gösteren bir süt işleme tesisinden alınmış olup SPSS 22.0 paket programı ile analiz edilmiştir. Grafiklerde belirlenen limitleri aşan durumlar olmasa bile dalgalanmaların sebeplerine ilişkin öneriler sunulmuştur.Anahtar Kelimeler: Kalite Kavramı, Kalite Kontrol, Kontrol Grafiği, İstatistiksel Kalite Kontrol, Gıda Kalitesi, Süt Ürünleri Yoğurt Üretimi ABSTRACTBusinesses have begun to compensate customers' expectations more rigorously due to explicitly increasing numbers of competitors and competition in all sectors particularly since 1990s. Along with increasing competition customers make more conscious choices and the concept of quality has reached to a more important place. The quality of service has also taken its importance place in food sector and other sectors as well. The purpose of this study is to put forward benefits of the statistical measurement of quality and to provide information about interpretation of statistical quality control for businesses. As far as is known, statistical quality control has not been used for food sector in the existing literature, therefore, the corresponding sector has been selected as the application field of the present study. The data of this study were obtained from a milk process plant operating in Malatya city and analyzed using SPSS 22.0 statistical package program. Though none of the cases has exceed the limits on control charts, several recommendations have been mad efor the reasons of fluctuations.

The main objective of this study is to examine the relationship between transformational leadership behavior and organizational innovativeness perception of officers currently working at the Governorship of Ardahan and its associated departments. Although there exists a fairly large literatüre for private sector firms, the number of studies concerning organizational innovation facilities for public institutions is relatively limited. For this purpose; firstly, the concepts of transformational leadership and organizational innovativeness are theoretically discussed. In 2016, a written-questionnaire was administered to 184 officers currently workşng at the Governorship of Ardahan and its associated departments and the results of this study revealed that the corresponding officers' transformational leadership behaviors had a positive impact on their organizational innovativeness perception.