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This study examines growth adventure of Turkey and South Korea that both tried to narrow the economical gap between them and developed countries. Although Turkey was in a better situation than South Korea in the beginning of their convergence experience, and they had similar growth and development levels at the end of 1950s, South Korea outperformed Turkey in almost every economic indicator and realized an economic miracle in a very short time. As South Korea is one of developed countries now and Turkey is still in the league of developing countries trying to be a developed one, South Korea model, is worth to be analyzed in detail. In this paper, the similarities and differences in South Korea’s and Turkey’s economic history, the comparison of their long term growth performance and the reasons why Turkey could not accomplish what South Korea did in the similar period of time, were put together in order to find answers to question of applicability of South Korean economic miracle to other economies, along with the question whether it was indeed a miracle. While comparing two countries, existing literature and similar studies were scanned. With the help of both qualitative and quantitative historical data, common issues of comparison, namely policies, international trade, education and innovation, were selected and these issues were analyzed deeper. In the last part of the study, a simple econometric model was built by using OLS regression, in order to see if the presented ideas could be supported with econometric approach. Although model did not provide enough information about reasons of growth in South Korean economy, the findings confirmed the problems of Turkish economy and success of South Korean economy. This study is a contribution to a broader understanding of comparison of two economies, which is an issue that attracts attention of several related people, especially in Turkey.
Die geringe bis nicht vorhandene Nutzung von mobilen Zahlungssystemen in Deutschland ist der Grund für diese Studie. Allerdings macht es Sinn, sich mit dieser neuen Technologie zu beschäftigen, da mobile Endgeräte einen sehr hohen Verbreitungsgrad haben und somit auch für eine Anwendung im Bereich der Zahlsysteme optimal sind und auch die technischen Voraussetzungen mit sich bringen. Heutige mobile Geräte sind Internetempfangsbereit um Zahlungen auszulösen oder zu autorisieren oder mit anderen Empfängern ausgestattet (NFC-Chips). Der Großteil der Forschung richtet sich allerdings auf den Kunden und seine Gründe, mobile Zahlungssysteme anzunehmen oder abzulehnen. Dieser Entwicklung soll mit dieser Thesis entgegengewirkt werden, da sie sich mit den Unternehmen beschäftigt und damit, welche Anwendungsmöglichen mobile Zahlungssysteme noch bieten sollen. Die Forschung in dieser Arbeit hat ergeben, das Unternehmen mobile Zahlungssysteme für die weitere Kundenbindung nutzen wollen und die verwendete Applikation zu Werbezwecken sowohl als auch Lagerbestandskontrollen einsetzen wollen.
Die zukünftige Forschung in diesem Bereich sollte sich weiter auf diese Punkte und ebenfalls auf weitere Nutzungsabsichten konzentrieren, damit Unternehmen einen weiteren Mehrwert in dieser neuen Technologie sehen.
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have become a driver motor of economies. Moreover, in developed countries, the manufacturing SMEs play an important role in the value creation and employment generation.O'regan et al. (2006) presents that constant innovation is a key component to maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. Raymond et al. (2010) claims that particular manufacturing SMEs should continuously improve their manufacturing processes in order to ensure long term sustainability. However, given the lack of resources and experience, SMEs find it difficult converting research and development into effective innovation (O’regan et al., 2006). Researchers have explained why certain firms innovate more than others by identifying a number of critical success factors or drivers of innovation such as strategy, social capital (Balachandra and Friar, 1997) or R&D (Becheikh et al., 2006a, Raymond et al.2010). The literature on the topic is diverse, there are different approaches and there is not a consensus on how those success factors can be measured. Therefore, the present thesis develops a meta-analysis study of the empirical research on the drives of innovation in manufacturing SMEs of developed countries. The result is a consolidated framework of the success factors and its measurements proposed by 49 authors, those were organized in the different phases of a holistic innovation process. The process considered was presented by Tidd and Bessant (2005). In consequence, the contribution of the present thesis is to serve as a starting point for future studies on drivers of innovation and its measurements, also, to serve as reference for future researchers that will develop a meta-analysis study.