Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi
ISSN/EISSN: 13023284 13080911
Subject:
Social Sciences
Publisher: Dokuz Eylul Univeristy
Country: Turkey
Language: Turkish, English
Start year 2008
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Pages: 07-18
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Loading...European Union is funding a 7th Framework Program Project named Food Labeling to Advance Better Education for Life (FLABEL) in 27 European countries and Turkey for the years 2008-2011. The second work package of this project entails consumer perception and evaluation of information on food labels. For this work package, an experiment was pursued in Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Business, Turkey. The respondents were shown food labels that they have seen before or have never seen before which are frequently used in different European countries. The study uses experiment and questionnaire methods. For the collection and storage of experimental work, an eye-tracker device connected to a special computer and relevant computer programs were used. The results of the study in Turkey demonstrate that respondents do not have sufficient information and experience in the perception and evaluation of nutrition values on food labels. There is no previous study on food labels and healthy nutrition in Turkey using eye-tracking devices. This study is a first attempt in applying the eye tracking experiment to explore consumers’ choice for healthy food.
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Loading...Significant increases in foreign exchange reserves in developing countries and Turkey have been observed in the 2000s. The proposal to build up reserves as a precaution against the financial crises since the second half of the 1990s has also brought interventions to the foreign exchange markets. However, the fact that intervention to the foreign exchange market created contrasting effects with regard to inflation targeting applications of central banks made the sterilization policy is inevitable. Therefore, the cost of sterilization is also added to the cost of possession of high foreign exchange reserves. In this study, the level of sterilization of foreign exchange market interventions, and the cost of the sterilization policy have both been calculated.
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Loading...In this article the relationship between FDI inflow to Turkey and Turkey’s export performance is analyzed. The lack of studies in Turkey about this issue constitutes the main motivation behind this study. The effect of FDI on exports was analyzed through the Granger Causality Test (GCT) (for the period of 1992:1-2009:7) and the VAR Analyses. As a result of the GCT, a unidirectional causality from FDI to exports was found. According to the results of export variance decomposition, it is observed that exports are under the influence of exports’ own lagged values. FDI plays 6 percent role in export changes. This finding corresponds to the finding that FDI causes exports. 74 percent of FDI changes arises from FDI, 10 percent from Interest Rates, and 8 percent from Exchange Rate. While Openness Ratio’s explanatory level for FDI is 2 percent, other variables are not significant in explaining FDI changes. According to these results, interest rates in the country, exchange rates, and openness ratio are main incentives behind FDI.
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Loading...As in all patriarchal societies, in England, women face with the problems stemming from gender inequality. In order to struggle with these problems, women should come together, and say ‘we’. However, due to various reasons, women cannot say ‘we’. This paper aims at discussing that middle class women in England do not say ‘we’ since they have been split up into two groups as the Angle-woman and the Eve-woman, and while the Angel-woman and the Eve-woman are competing for the interest of the man, they regard each other as the other. For this purpose, a short-story by Fay Weldon entitled “Weekend” has been studied.In this short-story, Weldon presents the female characters representing the Angle-woman and the Eve-woman, and displays the conflict between these two estranged groups. At the end of the study, it has been seen that since each group others the rival group, women cannot say ‘we’.
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Loading...Social entrepreneurship is seen as an activity of organizations which are aware of the social problems around and have the intention to solve these, including an innovative perspective. As such, social entrepreneurs are mentioned as individuals who contribute to the society’s benefit by creating social change in their community rather than working for their own profit. Poverty emerging as one of the most accelerating significant social problems with globalization is among the working domains of many social entrepreneurs who pursue their activities in order to solve this problem. Their working activities fill the needs gap in situations where governments and private sectors have inefficient or inattentive services. Social entrepreneurs’ perspective towards poverty is considered as important since they have a social mission in the solution, since they are innovative and since they provide sustainability by utilizing from different resources. This study will explore the social entrepreneurs’ different strategic activities with innovative perspectives on combating with poverty. Having this aim, the selected fellow profiles of Ashoka, the significant fund provider organization to social entrepreneurs, will be analyzed, in terms of how poverty is perceived among social entrepreneurs and what innovative strategies are implemented as a solution.
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Loading...Nowadays, it has a great importance that period income/loss and project costs in construction and contracting Works over years has been determined properly and reflected to that period by the business. Two methods has been used in over years recognition of construction and contracting Works. First method is completed contract methods that has been used in our country for years. The feature of this method is that the complete or the large part of the work must be built in order to determine the profit/loss, revenue and costs of construction work in question. The other method is percentage of completion method being provided by Turkish Accounting Standards 11. This method indicates that in the works being subject to the construction contracts over years, the starting and completing of the work constitutes different periods, and it is based on the periodicity concept. So, according to this method; in accounting, the revenue and cost record in reference to the degree of work completion is distributed within that accounting periods. Therefore, more trustable financial statements have been formed, and thanks to these statements, it is given more exact information to the users. The aim of this article is to examine the accounting records in relation to the construction contracts within the frame of both methods and to emphasize the resultant differences of them.