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Euro-Scepticism In Turkey of AKP Period in the Context of Temporary Tensions and Permanent Interests

Author(s): Hulya Eski Uguz,Rukiye Saygili / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

Turkey’s relationship with the European Union (EU) has a long history that reaches back to its application for associate membership in the European Economic Community (EEC) in July 1959 and the resulting Ankara Agreement in 1963. Turkey made its official membership application in 1987 and was granted official candidate status in 1999.Throughout this long process, Turkish political elites perceived EU membership as an ideal for Turkey and highlighted their commitment to their realization of Turkish accession to the EU. However this ideal, began to change towards the second half of the 2000s. Many commentators take October 2005 the official start of membership negotiations between Turkey and the EU, as the beginning of the end, the turning point where the ‘golden age’ of the EU membership project ended, after which it gradually began to Euroscepticism. There are more than enough reasons for the growing Euroscepticism in Turkey. In this context, the study aims to analyze the reasons of Euroskepticismin Turkey with particular focus on Adalet ve KalkınmaPartisi-AKP (Justice and Development Party) and how this suspicion would affect the membership course.

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An Evaluation of Fashion Involvement: A Study on Generations X and Y

Author(s): Hatice Aydin / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

This study deals with the influence of materialism on fashion involvement and of fashion involvement on mavenism, purchase decision involvement and recreational involvement. The data were collected via face-to-face survey method. The surveys were administered through convenience sampling method to generation X and Y members separately. Structural equation modeling was used to test generation X and Y models. At the end of the study, it was seen that generation Y are more materialist, involved in fashion and recreational shopping, and share their views of fashion products with others more. In addition, it was found out that the centrality materialism of generation X do not have any significant influence on their fashion involvement and their fashion involvement does not have any significant influence on their recreational shopping involvement whereas the success materialism of generation Y members do not have significant influence on fashion involvement.

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Evolution of Innovation Performance in the Russian Vodka Industry

Author(s): James O’Hare / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

The purpose of this paper is to understand the relationship between increased levels of competition – facilitated by market liberalisation – and innovation performance in the context of the Russian vodka industry. Through this understanding this paper subsequently develops a series of innovation policy considerations for transitional economies. In order to achieve this, this paper reflects on the existing literature surrounding innovation performance and competition; as well as the development of the Russian economy more broadly.This paper finds that a state-controlled industry is capable of fostering innovation. However, once the presence of the state in an industry is reduced, innovation performance is enhanced. A recommendation is made that the state should not exhibit control beyond providing a legislative framework for competitiveness; where possible monopolies should be broken down; and private enterprise should be encouraged.A number of the world's large economies find themselves in a state of transition, as such the development of an innovation policy that will allow transitional economies to realise their innovation potential in a sustainable way is imperative to the success of their ongoing transition. The Russian Federation has endured significant economic transition since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the Russian vodka industry has been a constant throughout, it is therefore an ideal case in examining the evolution of innovation in a transitional context.

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Towards Satisfying Distributors in Multilevel Marketing Companies

Author(s): Kwee-Fah Lee,Kai-Yin Loi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

This study examined the relevant factors which affect the satisfaction of distributors towards multilevel marketing (MLM) companies in Malaysia. Six factors were investigated, which includes: method to diffuse business opportunity, perceived quality of recruiting process, perceptions of products and services, up-line support, perceived quality of training program, as well as monthly income. Results of the multiple regression analysis demonstrated that the first four factors significantly affected distributors’ satisfaction. Only perceived quality of training program had no significant effect. Furthermore, one-way analysis of variance indicated that satisfaction was significantly less for distributors whose monthly income derived from MLM activities was below RM1,000 than those earning higher monthly income.

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Leadership Development Programs: Investigating the Impact of Contextual and Cultural Factors on LDP Effectiveness in the United Arab Emirates

Author(s): Amira Kamali,Payyazhi Jayashree,Valerie Lindsay / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2015

The interest in leadership continues to grow over the past few decades. Leadership Development Programs (LDPs) have become a priority for all sectors, especially for the public sector. However, LDPs tend to be based on Western leadership theories, and predominantly utilize Western leadership development approaches, and do not consider the influence of national culture in their utilization, namely high-context cultures, as exists in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This exploratory study focuses on elucidating leadership conceptualizations among Emirati leaders identifying their perceptions of the factors that impact on LDPs and leadership outcomes in the UAE public sector. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 leaders from three Dubai government organisations and data were analyzed using NVivo 10. The significance of the findings of the study are: (1) leadership conceptualizations were based on the common themes of inspiring others and communication, (2) mentoring and coaching were noted to be among the best mechanisms utilized in LDPs, (3) leadership challenges included access to financial resources, adapting to ‘smart’ government, and building and retention of leaders– hence the need for effective LDPs. The study provides a unique and significant contextual contribution highlighting improvement in opportunities for leadership development programs in the UAE public sector.

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An Exploratory Study of Skills Shortages within the Oil and Gas Industry in Scotland

Author(s): Nuria Camps / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2015

The aim of this paper is to analyse the perceptions and awareness that school leavers and university students, aged between 14 and 25 in Dundee, have of the Scottish oil and gas industry in relation to skills shortage issues faced by the industry. A survey was carried out in one secondary school and one university in Dundee with a total of 145 respondents taking part in the survey. Findings indicate that school leavers and students have certain misperceptions of the Scottish oil and gas industry and hence more effort is required to communicate the attractiveness of the industry.

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Defining the Social Enterprise: A Tangled Web

Author(s): Katherine Isabel Rostron / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

This paper aims to inform those reviewing the literature defining the social enterprise. The researcher made observations as part of a wider review of the Social Enterprise literature. The review was undertaken by searching with a range of key words, targeting relevant journals to identify relevant papers and used citations and references to search for further relevant material. The discussion has a UK perspective and consults but does not comprehensively incorporate the international literature. The findings include the discovery that while a definition may remain elusive the process of searching provides opportunities to deepen understanding of the topic. The author recommends further research to explore the perspectives of users, employees and managers of social enterprises to add to the discussion that already exists amongst the academics and policy makers.

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The Role of Customer Knowledge Management Process in Service Recovery Performance: An Applied Study to the Egyptian National Railways

Author(s): Nehal El-Helaly,Ahmed Ebeid,Azza El-Menbawey / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

Customer knowledge represents an important organisational asset that organisations would utilize and manage to gain a competitive advantage. The purpose of this study is to develop and test a model to explain the role of customer knowledge management in service recovery performance; through examining the impact of Customer Knowledge Management (CKM) process on Service Recovery Performance (SRP), based on the perspective of the Egyptian National Railways' employees. It also attempts to measure how employees and customers evaluate the Egyptian National Railways' actual performance of service recovery. This paper has demonstrated the value of managing customer knowledge effectively in order to achieve a higher performance on service recovery. The empirical results indicated that organisations need to capture, share, acquire, and apply customer knowledge successfully in order to improve their service recovery performance. The results also demonstrated that employees evaluate their performance regarding the service recovery more positively than what customers do.

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Gender Diversity: To be managed or not?

Author(s): Manuel Brugger / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

The purpose of this paper is to examine women’s perceptions of the manufacturing industry in the UK. More specifically, the research analyses factors influencing women’s decision on pursuing a career in the manufacturing industry at a Multinational Company. The findings indicate that the factors impacting women to pursuing a career in manufacturing are underlined by a complex interrelated system and depend on both societal and organisational patterns of behaviours, values and norms. Insights of this are particularly useful for managers and organisations operating in the manufacturing industry. The study suggests underlying reasons and implications that can be implemented. This study is based on a convenience sample and cannot be treated as a representative for the entire UK manufacturing industry.

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Teacher’s Entrepreneurial Pedagogical Content Knowledge Roles in Human Resource Development

Author(s): Merhayati Sipon,Zaidatol Akmaliah Lope Pihie,Fadzilah Abdul Rahman,Umi Kalthom Abdul Manaf / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

Among one of the strategic plan that's being enforced by Malaysia in generating a creative and innovative human resource is by strengthening the entrepreneurship education. This effort is in line with the aspiration of Malaysia’s Innovation Human Capital Development Plan, which emphasized entrepreneurship as an added value to alumnus employability, hence brought forth more quality human resources. However, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) showed that there is a gradual decrease in the entrepreneurial intention indicator among Malaysians since 2012. The decrement is a negative indication in Malaysia’s effort to achieve its vision of becoming a developed nation by the year 2020. Accordingly, Malaysia needs to reassess the planning and development of human resources. This paper discusses the views on the enforcement of teacher’s pedagogical content knowledge in entrepreneurship education which can contribute to the success of the human capital development in Malaysia.

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Transformational leadership: is it time for a recall?

Author(s): Mei Lee / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the two most prominent approaches to leadership: transformational leadership and inspirational leadership. Based on a review of the relevant literature, it is evident that the very concept of transformational leadership is ambiguous. The literature review also suggests that the idea of transformational leadership is being overshadowed by the model of inspirational leadership which despite its imperfections is more potent in practice. The paper draws on a comparison between these two approaches and argues that inspirational leadership is more practical and suitable in dynamic or non-business environments.

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Safe and Local Supplier Approval – A case study of the third party supplier approval scheme for micro and small food businesses

Author(s): Kevin Kane,Richard Bradford-Knox / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

It has long been recognised by many that micro and smaller food manufacturing or supply businesses have difficulties in meeting the food safety standards designed for larger food businesses and demanded of them by their customers. The consequence of this has been that the buyers have lacked sufficient confidence in the food hygiene and food safety of their products. In 2005 certain individuals and organisations within or related to the food industry got to together to design and develop a standard or scheme that, if met, could provide sufficient assurance that their standards of food hygiene and food safety management controls minimised any risk of harm to their customers or consumers.This case study examines the factors that inspired the need for Safe and Local Supplier Approval (SALSA), the third party supplier approval scheme, and led to its development, how it compares to other private standards and its potential for future development. It also seeks to show how SALSA and the principles it follows fit in with the principles of risk based management systems through support, cooperation, between the various parties and businesses involved together with a sound governance structure in order to achieve successful outcomes.

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М.Ю. ЛЕРМОНТОВ И ТАТАРСКАЯ ПОЭЗИЯ НАЧАЛА XX ВЕКА (К ВОПРОСУ О МЕЖЛИТЕРАТУРНОМ ДИАЛОГЕ)

Author(s): Alsu Zarifovna Khabibullina / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2015

The paper discusses the dialogue between the literary works of M.Yu. Lermontov and Tatar poets of the early 20th century (Sh.M. Babich and Dardemend). The study is based on the proposition that the East and its culture did not only constitute the topic covered quite well by M.Yu. Lermontov, since there were foundations associated with the Eastern aesthetics and culture in the very structure of his consciousness. It was this relationship between M.Yu. Lermontov and the most important concepts of the Eastern culture that led to the interliterary dialogue, which is analyzed in this paper in terms of the motive of wandering and path.

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ЖЕНСКИЙ ПОРТРЕТ В ПРОЗЕ М.М. ХЕРАСКОВА

Author(s): Sergey Anatolyevich Vasilyev / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2015

This paper describes style peculiarities distinguishing M.M. Kheraskov’s portrayal of women, which is so characteristic of his artistic descriptions. Based on the specificities and functions of literary portrayal in modern philology, features uniting verbal representations with visual images, in particular with the pictorial allegories typical for the cultural epoch of the 18th century and their “clichés”, are revealed. Another feature of М.М. Kheraskov’s style, which appears in his prosaic portrayals, consists, as a rule, in the unique functioning of every, especially detailed, description of women.

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ПРОБЛЕМА СЕМЬИ В ПОЭМЕ М.Ю. ЛЕРМОНТОВА «ПЕСНЯ ПРО ЦАРЯ ИВАНА ВАСИЛЬЕВИЧА, МОЛОДОГО ОПРИЧНИКА И УДАЛОГО КУПЦА КАЛАШНИКОВА»

Author(s): Natalia Gennadevna Komar / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2015

The paper is devoted to the problem of family in M.Yu. Lermontov’s poem “The Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich, the Young Oprichnik, and the Daring Merchant Kalashnikov”. The most authoritative scientific concepts are considered. The moral and ethical content of the work is evaluated. The figurative and narrative features of the poem are explored in relation to their conformity or discrepancy with those of the Old Russian literature. The subjects of comparative analysis are literary works representing the Old Russian literature (“The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” and “The Tale of Peter and Fevronia of Murom”) and A.S. Pushkin’s novel “The Captain’s Daughter”. It is concluded that the realities of the 14th century depicted in the poem serve mainly as a historical background expressing the worldview, which was alien to the culture of the Ancient Rus’.

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ЗАСТОЛЬНЫЕ ПЕСНИ Н.М. ЯЗЫКОВА: РАЗВИТИЕ ТРАДИЦИЙ Г.Р. ДЕРЖАВИНА И Д.В. ДАВЫДОВА

Author(s): Anna Aleksandrovna Soboleva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2015

The purpose of this paper is to consider the genre of drinking songs in N.M. Yazykov’s works. The comparative analysis of drinking songs created by this poet and in the earlier works by G.R. Derzhavin and D.V. Davydov makes it possible to find similar themes and trace their development. Patriotic motifs prevailing in the works of all these poets are expressed in different ways. G.R. Derzhavin poeticizes the native customs, describing in details the national way of life. D.V. Davydov’s lyrical character is a brave soldier fighting for the motherland and considering the feast as a continuation of the battle. In N.M. Yazykov’s early works, the feast of students symbolizes their ability to think and speak freely. In his later poems, it turns into the readiness to fight for motherland, in terms of ideological fight rather than real battle.

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РУССКИЙ МИФ В СЛАВЯНСКОМ ФЭНТЕЗИ

Author(s): Tatyana Nikolaevna Breeva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2015

The paper discusses the specificity and mechanism of construction of the Russian myth in the Slavic fantasy at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The sociopolitical context provoking actualization of the Russian myth is analyzed. The variants of its presentation and simulation peculiarities are described. The Russian myth is constructed based on three main lines. First, the system of traditional national identificators is reconsidered in the Slavic fantasy. Secondly, a new pantheon of national heroes is formed, thereby invoking the narratives of Oleg and Vladimir. Thirdly, the process of national reidentification based on the revision of national auto- and heterostereotypes is widely represented.

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ПОВЕСТЬ А. ЖИТИНСКОГО «ВНУК ДОКТОРА БОРМЕНТАЛЯ» КАК СТРУКТУРНО-СЕМАНТИЧЕСКИЙ КОМПОНЕНТ «БУЛГАКОВСКОГО ТЕКСТА»

Author(s): Tatyana Borisovna Vasilieva-Shalneva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2015

The purpose of this paper is to disclose one of the components of “Bulgakov’s text” as a literary phenomenon. The study of this phenomenon (along with “Pushkin’s”, “Gogol’s”, and other texts) seems to be quite appropriate, as it is among the important problems of modern humanities (intertext phenomenon). The paper uses comparative and typological methods of investigation of M. Bulgakov’s “Heart of a Dog” (pretext) and A. Zhitinskii’s “Grandson of Dr. Bormental” (sequel). This allows to reveal the palimpsestic nature of A. Zhitinskii’s story, as well as to identify the sociocultural plan and game strategy of world modeling in the literary work. The novelty of the research lies in the identification of structural-semantic peculiarities of A. Zhitinskii’s story in the aspect of the intertextual Bulgakov’s “code”. As the result of the study, it was concluded that annihilation of the sustainable conceptual blocks, which transforms the essence of external and internal attributes of the everyday-existential dominants in relation to the new temporal context, is present in the sequel under study.

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ГОРОД САКСИН: МЕСТОПОЛОЖЕНИЕ И НАСЕЛЕНИЕ (ПО ПИСЬМЕННЫМ ИСТОЧНИКАМ И МАТЕРИАЛАМ САМОСДЕЛЬСКОГО ГОРОДИЩА)

Author(s): Dimitrii Viktorovich Vasilev / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2015

A substantial amount of materials has been gathered in the recent years during the archaeological excavations. It is possible to determine the specific geographical location of the city of Saksin based on these materials. Abu Hamid al-Gharnati’s words about this city and the region of Saksin add to the results of archaeological research. The city of Saksin can be confidently localized in the settlement of Samosdelka within the delta of the Volga River, as evidenced by al-Gharnati’s descriptions of the river bed width, many rivers full of fish, and “mountains” (Baer’s Hills). The ethnic origin of Samosdelka ceramics corresponds to ethnoses mentioned by al-Gharnati: Oguzes, Bulgars, Suvars, and Khazars.

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НАУКА И ОБЩЕСТВО: ПУБЛИЧНАЯ ИСТОРИЯ В КОНТЕКСТЕ ИСТОРИЧЕСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ ЭПОХИ ГЛОБАЛИЗАЦИИ

Author(s): Lorina Petrovna Repina / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2015

In the 19th century, which is known as the historical age, the high degree of trust to history and the social prestige of historical science were based on the idea entrenched in the public consciousness about the continuity of historical development of human civilization and the unique opportunities for using the past experience as a means to solve problems in the present and build “the bright future”. However, understanding of the dramatic experience of the 20th century undermined the belief in the usefulness of history. This situation was greatly aggravated by the intensification of globalization processes at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The problems of interaction between academic (professional) history and the general public of concrete societies, as well as changes in their relations in the context of deep social transformations turned out to be at the center of attention of many researchers. Public history purposefully overcomes alienation from “the uninitiated”, which is typical for historical science of the 20th century; it strives to restore the interest of the consumer to the production of historians, as well as to propagate professional standards, historical knowledge, and proper understanding of the specific character of “historian’s craft” among the wide circles of non-professionals.

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