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Ph.D. on Management and Organization

MAN674

ORGANIZATIONS AND MANAGEMENT: TURKISH CASE

Course Code
MAN674
Semester
-
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
15
Course TypeElective Course
Course LevelDoctorate Of Science
Year of Study-
Semester-
ECTS15
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. can understand the issue of societal dependency of organizational and managerial phenomenons.
  2. will have knowledge about the Turkish context.
  3. will be aware of the managerial practices in Turkey.
  4. can understand the organizational forms and managerial practices in Turkey by considering the changes within their historical, economical, political, and institutional contexts.
  5. will have the capability of modelling about organizational and managerial practices in Turkey
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme ComponentsMAN660 TOPICS IN MICRO ORGANIZATION THEORY I MAN661 TOPICS IN MACRO ORGANIZATION THEORY
Course DescriptionThe course aims to examine the theoretical and practical development of organizations and management in Turkey.The course will cover topics such as the reflections of developed organizational theories to Turkey, the development of Turkish organizations / management literature, the historical development of the Turkish national business system, the characteristics of typical organizational form in this development process, the changes in organizational form, management practices and change, cultural and political dynamics.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Definition of the Course and Introduction
2nd Week Comparative Institutionalism and National Business System Approach
3rd Week Some Country Cases in Terms of Comparative Institutionalism
4th Week Globalization and Institutional Change
5th Week Critiques to Macro-institutionalist Approaches
6th Week Construction and Change of the Organizational Context in Turkey: Political-economy of Development
7th Week Dominant Organizational Form in Turkish Business System: Holdings and Business Groups
8th Week Mid-term
9th Week Social Structure and Interorganizational Relations in Turkey
10th Week New Capital Groups in Turkish Business System
11th Week Extraordinary Cases in Holding Structuring: OYAK and İş Bankası
12th Week Transfer of Organizational Structures and Practices, and Reconstruction in Turkey
13th Week Main Characteristics of Turkish Organization/Management Literature
14th Week Publishing Articles in Organization and Management Field: What is Interesting Study?
15th Week General Assessment
Recommended or Required ReadingCampbell, J. L. (2004). Chapter 1: Problems of Institutional Analysis. Institutional Change and Globalization. Princeton University Press, Princeton: New Jersey. 1-30.
Whitley, R. 2000. Divergent capitalisms: The social structuring and change of business systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 31-64.
Whitley, Richard (2005) How National are Business Systems? The Role States and Complementary Institutions in Standardizing Systems of Economic Coordination and Control at the National Level in G. Morgan, R. Whitley, and E. Moon (eds) Changing Capitalisms? Internationalization, Institutional Change, and Systems of Economic Organization,. 190-231. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lane, C. 1992. European business systems: Britain and Germany compared. R. D. Whitley (Der.), European business systems: 64-97. London, UK: Sage Publications.
Hamilton, G. G. ve Biggart, N. W. 1988. Market, culture and authority: A comparative analysis of management and organization in the Far East. American Journal of Sociology, 94 Ek: 52-94.
Hollingsworth, J. Rogers. 1997. The institutional embeddedness of American capitalism, C. Crouch and Wolfgang Streeck (der), Political economy of modern capitalism: Mapping convergence and divergence. 133-147, London: Sage,.
Campbell, J. 2004. Chapter 5: The Problem of Globalization. Institutional Change and Globalization. 124-171, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Guillen, Mario, 2001. Three paths to development, three responses to globalization. The limits of convergence: Globalization and organizational change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain. 27-58, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Vogel, Steven. 2005. Routine adjustment and bounded innovation: The changing political economy of Japan, W. Streeck, ve K. Thelen (der.) Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies, 145-168, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mueller, F. 1994. Societal effect, organizational effect and globalization, Organization Studies, 15 (3) 407-428.
Mayer, M. C. J. ve Whittington, R. 1999. Strategy, structure and systemness: National institutions and corporate change in France, Germany and UK, 1950-1993. Organization Studies, 20(6): 933-959.
Anne Tempel and Peter Walgenbach 2007. Global Standardization of organizational Forms and Management Practices? What New Institutionalism and the Business-Systems Approach Can Learn from Each Other. Journal of Management Studies, 44:1 - 24.
Buğra, A. 1994. Devlet ve işadamları. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, sayfa 11-239 (Çeviri: Fikret Adaman, State and business in Turkey. Albany: State University of New York Press).
Öniş, Z. 1999. Political economy of Turkey in the 1980s: Anatomy of unorthodox liberalism. Z. Öniş (Der.) State and market: The political economy of Turkey in comparative perspective: 183-196. Istanbul: Bogaziçi University Press.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Discussion
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 25
Assignment 1 15
Project 1 25
Total(%) 65
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 65
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 35
Total(%) 100
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam 1 2 2
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work
Preparation for Final exam 4 55 220
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam 3 40 120
Laboratory (including preparation) 1 30 30
Final exam 1 3 3
Homework
Take-home 1 30 30
Total Work Load447
Total Work Load / 30 (h)14.9
ECTS Credit of the Course15
Language of InstructionTurkish
Work Placement(s)No

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5
K1 X
K2 X
K3 X
K4 X
K5 X
K6 X
K7 X
K8 X
K9 X
K10 X
K11 X
K12 X
K13 X
K14 X