German-Turkish Perspectives on IT and Innovation Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

   PDF

2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

      PDF

   2. R&D in Germany and Turkey – a Comparison

      • Andreas Kladroba

      Pages 3-19

   3. Knowledge and Innovation Economy: an Evaluation of Turkey

      • Fehim Bakırcı

      Pages 21-42

   4. Research and Development and High Technology Exports in Selected Countries at Different Development Stages: a Panel Co-integration and Causality Analysis

      • Yusuf Bayraktutan, Hanife Bıdırdı, Aziz Kutlar

      Pages 43-72

3. Innovation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

      PDF

   2. Business and Innovation

      • Kürşat Timuroğlu, Ersin Karaman, Mustafa Keskinkılıç

      Pages 75-87

   3. Strategic Reorientation Due to Competitors’ Disruptive Innovation

      • Alexander Schmidt

      Pages 89-108

   4. Public Innovation Management Support in Rural Areas: the ARTIE Case in Germany

      • Hartmut-Heinrich Meyer, Bastian Paulsen

      Pages 109-121

   5. The Innovative Role of Social Media in Healthcare

      • İmran Aslan

      Pages 123-142

   6. The Analysis of Factors that Affect Innovation Performance of Logistics Enterprises in Turkey

      • Osman Demirdöğen, Hamit Erdal, Ahmet İlker Akbaba

      Pages 143-164

   7. Corporate Evaluation as an Instrument of Innovation Management in Turkey

      • Sven Lauterjung, Alessandra Bugla

      Pages 165-180

   8. An Assessment on Innovative Activity and Performance of Turkish Logistics Sector

      • Osman Demirdöğen, Hamit Erdal

      Pages 181-197

   9. Determining Performances of Innovation and Exports in Turkey and Selected Countries via Malmquist Index for the Period of 1996–2012

      • Aziz Kutlar, Yusuf Bayraktutan, Hanife Bıdırdı

      Pages 199-214

   10. Structure Genesis as a Factor of Success of Interorganisational Innovation Networks

       • Axel Müller, Silvia Pick Vidal

       Pages 215-227

   11. Knowledge Transfer as Driver for Innovation Culture in Heterogeneous Economic Zones

       • Winand Dittrich, Matthias Biniok

       Pages 229-246

4. IT

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247

      PDF

   2. Driver’s Choice and System Outcomes in Congested Traffic Networks

      • Siegfried Weinmann, Kay W. Axhausen, Christoph Dobler

      Pages 249-266

   3. Development of an Efficient Europe-wide e-Recruiting System (European Recruiting 2020)

      • Ricardo Büttner

      Pages 267-274

   4. Cloud-computing in the Insurance Industry

      • Thomas Christiaans, Stefan Steden

      Pages 275-290

This book includes papers presented at the 2nd Economic forum: German-Turkish perspectives on IT and Innovation Management at the FOM in Munich, organized by the FOM University of Applied Sciences and Atatürk University Erzurum. Patron of the conference was Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka, Federal Minister for Education and Research. To mark the German-Turkish year of science, both countries picked out global and societal challenges as a central theme and explored solution strategies as well as their implementation in new technologies and innovations. 
The papers discuss the effects of new technologies and innovations from different perspectives – from IT management, banking and finance to the special challenges of SMEs. 

• Innovation
• Information Technology
• IT
• Finance
• Education
• SME

• Atatürk Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Yakutiye/Erzurum, Turkey

  Fehim Bakırcı, Üstün Özen

• FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management , Essen, Germany

  Thomas Heupel

• FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management, Nürnberg, Germany

  Orhan Kocagöz

Fehim Bakırcı is a professor of ecomomic theory and labor economy at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and head of the Department of International Trade and Logistic at Atatürk University in Erzurum, Turkey. His research fields are micro economy, labor economy, industrial economy and efficiency and economic productivity. 
Thomas Heupel studied economics at the University of Siegen and subsequently worked as a research assistant at the IöB (Institut für ökologische Betriebswirtschaft) and managing director of the SMI (Siegener Mittelstandsinstitut) at the University of Siegen, Germany. He is a professor of business administration, with a focus on cost accounting and controlling. Since 2009 he has been vice rector of research at the FOM University of Applied Sciences in Essen, Germany. His research focuses on the fields of behavioural economics, automotive industry management, demographic change, blue ocean strategy, management of SMEs and cost control. He is a member of several scientific institutions’ advisory boards and editor of numerous academic books.

Orhan Kocagöz studied business administration at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen and received a doctorate on the topic “Business groups in developing countries. The rise, organization and business policy of Turkish holdings”. Since 2011 he has been professor of general business administration in particular international management at the FOM University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg, Germany. 
Üstün Özen is professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and head of the Department of Management Information Systems at the Atatürk University in Erzurum, Turkey. He has published a wide spectrum of articles in various national and international journals in the fields of information systems management, project management, system analysis & design, distance learning, and e-commerce, as well as numerous books. He has also presented a number of scientific papers at national and international symposiums.

Policies and ethics