EBES conferences have been intellectual hub for academic discussion in economics, finance, and business fields and provide network opportunities for participants to make long lasting academic cooperation. This is the 24th volume of the Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics (EBES’s official proceeding series) which includes selected papers from the 37th EBES Conference – Berlin. The conference was jointly organized with the GLO (Global Labour Organization, a global, independent, non-partisan and non-governmental organization based in Germany) with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association and in collaboration with the FOM University of Applied Sciences (Germany). Due to COVID-19, the conference presentation mode was virtual. In the conference, 177 papers by 379 colleagues from 54 countries were presented. Both theoretical and empirical papers in this volume cover diverse areas of business, economics, and finance from many different regions. Therefore, it providesa great opportunity to colleagues, professionals, and students to catch up with the most recent studies in different fields and empirical findings on many countries and regions.
Table of Content
Part 1. Eurasian Business Perspectives: Education.- Chapter 1. Evaluating Student Learning Gain: A Study to Consider How Teaching Online During the Covid-19 Pandemic Affected Student Learning.- Chapter 2. Covid-19 Vaccination Opinions in Education-related Tweets.- Part 2. Eurasian Business Perspectives: Industrial Organization.- Chapter 3. A Model of Bertrand Competition with Asymmetric Demand.- Chapter 4. Value Creation Through Public-private Partnerships in the Healthcare Sector: A Managerial Analysis of Italian Healthcare Organizations During the Covid-19 Pandemic.- Part 3. Eurasian Business Perspectives: Management.- Chapter 5. Internal Communication and Culture – a Theoretical Framework.- Chapter 6. A Case Study: Developing a Systematic Method for the Digitalization of Business Processes for SME in Construction Industry.- Chapter 7. Pathways Between Dominance and Goodwill: Changing the Perspective for Successful Stakeholder Integration.- Chapter 8. Risk Evaluation in Public Spaces Evacuation.- Part 4. Eurasian Business Perspectives: Marketing.- Chapter 9. Influencer Marketing as an Effective Marketing Tool in the Conditions of Selected Regions of Central and Eastern Europe.- Part 5. Eurasian Economic Perspectives: Accounting & Finance.- Chapter 10. Market Concentration of Audit Services Provided to Public-interest Entities: Empirical Evidence from the Czech Republic.- Chapter 11. Corporate Taxation and Intangible Assets: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Trends.- Chapter 12. The Analysis of Audit Market Concentration in Visegrad 4 Countries.- Part 6. Eurasian Economic Perspectives: Labor Economics.- Chapter 13. How to Increase the Standard Employment of People with Disabilities? .- Chapter 14. The Role of Career Counselling for Socially Vulnerable Groups – the Case of Epikendro of Actionaid Greece.- Part 7. Eurasian Economic Perspectives: Regional Studies.- Chapter 15. The European Central Bank’s Strategy Review and the Management of Inflation Expectations.- Chapter 16. Research Productivity in Economics and Business Disciplines in Emerging Economies: Insights from Kazakhstan.- Chapter 17. Remittances and Technology Spillovers – an Empirical Evidence from Remittance-receiving Countries.- Chapter 18. A Modernization So Close Yet So Far? A Strategic Perspective on the Customs Union 2.0 Discussion Between the Eu and Turkey.- Part 8. Eurasian Economic Perspectives: Sustainablility.- Chapter 19. Factors Influencing Personal Carbon Footprint of the Croatian University Students.- Chapter 20. Sustainable Bioeconomy at Different Speeds: Assessing Regional Performance and Innovation Type.- Chapter 21. Memory Resilience and Sustainability: When Tourism and Art Meet in Byzantium.- Chapter 22. Environmentally Adjusted Productivity Change: Comparing Croatia with Other European Union Member States.
About the author
Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin is a Professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University (Turkey). He has also held visiting faculty positions at Indiana University in Indianapolis (USA), Jacksonville University (USA), Zagreb University (Croatia), and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Prof. Bilgin has published many articles in reputable international journals. Among other several editorial duties, he serves as the Subject Editor in Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money and as the Associate Editor in Singapore Economic Review. He is the founder and current Chairman of the Istanbul Economic Research Association, and the founder and current Vice President of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES, Turkey). He has also been active as a consultant to several institutions, as a newspaper columnist, and featured in several television programs.
Hakan Danis is the Vice President of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES)and Director in the Credit Strategies Group at the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) (USA). He has previously worked at the Spanish multinational global bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) in the USA as economist. He is one of the founders and first President of the EBES. He has published articles in many leading economics and finance journals and currently serves as the Managing Editor of Eurasian Economic Review (Springer). He served as the guest editor at the Emerging Markets Finance & Trade and Singapore Economic Review, and has published several academic books. His current research and teaching interests include monetary policy, nonlinear applied time series, risk management in financial institutions, and macroeconomics.
Ender Demir is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Department of Business Administration, School of Social Sciences, Reykjavik University (Iceland). Dr. Demir is the founder and conference coordinator of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES). He serves as the Associate Editor of the Eurasian Business Review (Springer), and as a Subject Editor of the Journal of Multinational Financial Management. He has published his research in peer-reviewed international journals such as the Annals of Tourism Research, Emerging Markets Review, Finance Research Letters, and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. His research interests are in corporate finance, cryptocurrencies, financial economics, and tourism economics.