German-Turkish Perspectives on IT and Innovation Management

Part I. Introduction

1. R&D in Germany and Turkey – a Comparison
Andreas Kladroba

2. Knowledge and Innovation Economy: an Evaluation of Turkey
Fehim Bakırcı

3. 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

Part II. Innovation

4. Business and Innovation
Kürşat Timuroğlu, Ersin Karaman, Mustafa Keskinkılıç

5. Strategic Reorientation Due to Competitors’ Disruptive Innovation
Alexander Schmidt

6. Public Innovation Management Support in Rural Areas: the ARTIE Case in Germany
Hartmut-Heinrich Meyer, Bastian Paulsen

7. The Innovative Role of Social Media in Healthcare
Ä°mran Aslan

8. The Analysis of Factors that Affect Innovation Performance of Logistics Enterprises in Turkey
Osman Demirdöğen, Hamit Erdal, Ahmet İlker Akbaba

9. Corporate Evaluation as an Instrument of Innovation Management in Turkey
Sven Lauterjung, Alessandra Bugla

10. An Assessment on Innovative Activity and Performance of Turkish Logistics Sector
Osman Demirdöğen, Hamit Erdal

11. 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

12. Structure Genesis as a Factor of Success of Interorganisational Innovation Networks
Axel Müller, Silvia Pick Vidal

13. Knowledge Transfer as Driver for Innovation Culture in Heterogeneous Economic Zones
Winand Dittrich, Matthias Biniok

Part III. IT

14. Driver’s Choice and System Outcomes in Congested Traffic Networks
Siegfried Weinmann, Kay W. Axhausen, Christoph Dobler

15. Development of an Efficient Europe-wide e-Recruiting System (European Recruiting 2020)
Ricardo Büttner

16. Cloud-computing in the Insurance Industry
Thomas Christiaans, Stefan Steden

17. Dynamic Store Procedures in Database
Muhammet Dursun Kaya, Hasan Asil

18. The Impact of High-Tech Expenditures on Exports in Turkey: 1996–2012
Aziz Kutlar, Ali Kabasakal

19. A Fresh Look at an Old Classification Algorithm
Bernd-Jürgen Falkowski

Part IV. Finance

20. Islamic Banking 101: Turkish Banks in Germany
Andree Elsner, Tobias Kleinert, Helena Strebel-Nelson

21. Social Impact Bonds as a Financial Innovation – an Evolutionary Economic Approach
Thomas Holtfort

22. Success Factors of Crowdfunding Projects on the Kickstarter Platform
Jörg Gutsche, Sabrina Sylla

Part V. Education

23. Measuring the Effectiveness and Innovative Capability of Bingöl University and Atatürk University
İmran Aslan, Orhan Çınar

24. An E-conversion Project in Turkey’s Education System: the FATİH Project
Daha Orhan, Embiya Çelik, Arif Daş

25. Turkish Aacademics and Students in the Context of Skill Shortages in Germany
Winand Dittrich, Natalina Reuffurth

Part VI. SME

26. Risk Controlling in SMEs − a German-Turkish Perspective
Stephan Schöning, Cağla Ersen Cömert

27. Study of the Obstacles and Motivational Factors of Innovation in SMEs
Osman Demirdöğen, Farid Haddadzadeh Hendou

Part VII. Miscellaneous

28. Emotional Ethnic Marketing
Julia Hermann

29. Use of Information Communication Technologies in Political Communication and Participation – with Special Reference to Turkey
Hasan Emir AktaÅŸ

30. Trust Management as an Innovative Factor of Customer Retention: the Negotiation Behavior in Comparison to German and Turkish Business Partners
Volker Eickenberg

Keywords: Business and Management, Innovation/Technology Management