The article analyses the key directions of Turkey’s foreign policy under presidency Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It examines concepts such as “ba-lance” in relations with Middle East and West, which Turkey is trying to achieve through development its economy international trade. also focuses on concept “security East”, reflects focus security concerns from terrorist groups border Syria Iraq. Researche...

Although Knowledge has grown to occupy a major role in the discussion on firm performance, we currently know little about the micro-processes involved in search and transfer of knowledge. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in a large, multinational professional service firm, we identify a frequent phenomenon in which employees successfully extend ties to unacquainted others, bypassing direct and in...

Although network ties are crucial for firm performance, the strategies by which executives actually form ties are relatively unexplored. In this study, we introduce a new construct, tie formation efficiency, and clarify its importance for superior network outcomes. Building on fieldwork in 9 Internet security ventures seeking investment ties, we unexpectedly identify two equifinal paths for how...

the manufacture of such ties has grown into a major forest products industry. Today, over a billion wood ties support the 350,000 miles of railroad tracks in the United States. The success of these ties in service-particularly under the stress of World War II traffic-is a testament to the utility of wood crossties. Abstract It is generally agreed that railroads of the United States must substan...

The members of every community can be thought of as linked by a network of one-to-one ties between people who are related to one another as friends, neighbors, relatives, or coworkers. The distance between any two people is the minimum number of steps through ties in the network needed to go from one to the other. A common and unusual characteristic of communities is that these distances are no...

We study the complexity of manipulation for a family of election systems derived from Copeland voting via introducing a parameter α that describes how ties in head-to-head contests are valued. We show that the thus obtained problem of manipulation for unweighted Copeland elections is NP-complete even if the size of the manipulating coalition is limited to two. Our result holds for all rational ...

We study the impact of social networks on agents’ ability to gather superior information about firms. Exploiting novel data on the educational backgrounds of sell side equity analysts and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts’ school ties to senior officers impart comparative information advantages in the production of analyst research. We find evidence that analysts ou...

this article discusses the german, ottoman and british rivalries to dominate the oil lands of caucasia just after the bolshevik revolution of russia and surveys the impact of above-mentioned rivalries on the general situation of region. hence, the strategic importance of the region will be discussed from the viewpoints of the three great powers. furthermore, the main military force of britain i...