Public sector reforms to fight corruption in Turkey: a case of failed Europeanization?

Soyaltın, Diğdem

doi:10.1080/14683849.2017.1314185

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“…Gao and Hafsi () suggest that “getting support from the government through building ties with the government is not cost free” (p. 199). As a recent example from Turkey, large firms that had high political embeddedness could not make their own large‐scale investment decisions and assign CEOs or other top managers without the consent of the executives of the administration (Soyaltin, ). Moreover, firms were compelled to allow some people who have a political orientation with the existing administration to sit on the firms’ board of directors and this situation not only led firms to operate with managerial inefficiency but some of them even lost their autonomy.…”

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The interplay of corporate social responsibility and corporate political activity in emerging markets: The role of strategic flexibility in non‐market strategies

Kamaşak

James

Yavuz

2019

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate political activities are complementary, and the coordinated management of corporate social responsibility and corporate political activities may lead to better firm performance. However, corporate social responsibility and corporate political activities should be aligned carefully to utilize this complementarity. Strategic flexibility, which is the ability of a firm to adapt to changes in the external environment and make necessary organizational modifications quickly, can help firms to align their corporate social responsibility and corporate political activities. This paper empirically investigates the political dimension and the interactive dimension which describes interactions between corporate social responsibility and corporate political activities together with strategic flexibility and their effects on firm performance through a study of 142 firms in Turkey using moderated multiple regression methods. The results show that, while the political dimension had an inverted U‐shaped effect on firm performance, indicating that only a moderate level of corporate political activities may improve financial performance, the interactive dimension had positive but limited implications for performance. Finally, it was found strategic flexibility plays a positive moderating role on the relationships between the interactive dimension and firm performance. It is concluded that complementarity between corporate social responsibility and corporate political activities which may result in better performance is contingent on strategic flexibility.

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The interplay of corporate social responsibility and corporate political activity in emerging markets: The role of strategic flexibility in non‐market strategies

Kamaşak

James

Yavuz

2019

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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“…Corruption has always been a problem in Turkey (Bak, 2019; Baran, 2000; Kimya, 2019; Ömürgönülşen & Doig, 2012; Soyaltin, 2017). Allegations of corruption are constant in Turkey, especially in the political sphere and related to construction contracts.…”

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Corruption in Turkey and earthquakes: Policies for tackling corruption in the construction sector

Cifuentes‐Faura

2024

Manage Decis Econ

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The earthquake in Turkey has resulted in thousands of fatalities and injuries and is considered one of the worst natural disasters in recent history. The disaster has also brought to light another major issue in Turkey, namely, corruption. Failure to comply with building regulations and successive government amnesties for unlicensed construction contributed to the high death toll. This paper aims to draw attention to the ongoing issue of corruption and the potential life‐saving benefits of ethical practices in business and government. Finally, relevant useful policies targeting corruption in real estate have been proposed.

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“…First, clientelism transformed some radical-Islamist voters to realign with the neoliberal AKP. More specifically, clientelism helped small-scale business owners to upgrade into big capitalists by winning public procurements or undertaking urban transformation projects (e.g., Eliçin, 2014; Emek & Acar, 2015; Soyaltın, 2017). In conforming to that almost all clients observed that most of the urban transformation projects in some neighborhoods of Bağcılar were undertaken by pro-AKP constructors.…”

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Clientelism, partisanship, and ideology

Arslantaş

2023

International Area Studies Review

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This paper aims to highlight the role of clientelism in the Justice and Development Party's (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi) electoral dominance in Turkish politics. Based on intensive fieldwork in Istanbul's one of the poorest and conservative districts of Bağcılar, it argues that the expansion of clientelist networks under the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi government has twofold ramifications, which in turn have reproduced the cycle of dominance. First, it strengthened clients’ partisan identification. Second, it changed clients’ ideology such that they became less resistant to or even supportive of neoliberal reforms that extensively undermined their well-being.

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Public sector reforms to fight corruption in Turkey: a case of failed Europeanization?

Cited by 38 publications

References 18 publications

The interplay of corporate social responsibility and corporate political activity in emerging markets: The role of strategic flexibility in non‐market strategies

The interplay of corporate social responsibility and corporate political activity in emerging markets: The role of strategic flexibility in non‐market strategies

Corruption in Turkey and earthquakes: Policies for tackling corruption in the construction sector

Clientelism, partisanship, and ideology

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