Outsourcing distribution and logistics services within the automotive supplier industry

This paper reports on an empirical study that examined a suite of distribution and logistics services commonly used to manage inbound materials en route to plants. The sourcing decision is examined through the lenses of transaction cost economics and the resource-based view of the firm and the results lend limited support for both theories in the context of such services. Results further indicate that there is little evidence supporting differences between internal versus external decision-makers.     

Impression management tactics in the CEO statements of Turkish sustainability reports

In this study, we construct a classificatory scheme of impression management tactics and apply it to a sample of sustainability report and annual report CEO statements issued by large Turkish companies. We find a wide range of impression management tactics applied in both types of CEO statements. However, impression management in sustainability report CEO statements emerges as more limited and uniform, revealing clearer prioritizations of impression management tactics when compared to annual report CEO statements. Sustainability report CEO statements emphasize tactics that allow the company to highlight carefully selected, isolated aspects of their sustainability engagement. At the same time, they rarely employ tactics that are geared towards more systematic (quantitative) performance evaluation. We attribute these differences to the way in which corporate sustainability performance is commonly conceptualized and evaluated, emphasising qualitative performance dimensions rather than the reporting of quantitative performance metrics. This results in the application of a different impression management tactics mix and limits the usefulness of sustainability reports as an accountability mechanism when compared to corporate annual reports. In addition, we provide tentative evidence for the context-specific nature of impression management, with the choice of impression management tactics reflecting the institutional environment a company is based in.     

Robust explicit estimators of Weibull parameters

The Weibull distribution plays a central role in modeling duration data. Its maximum likelihood estimator is very sensitive to outliers. We propose three robust and explicit Weibull parameter estimators: the quantile least squares, the repeated median and the median/Q _n estimator. We derive their breakdown point, influence function, asymptotic variance and study their finite sample properties in a Monte Carlo study. The methods are illustrated on real lifetime data affected by a recording error.     

The interaction between paternalistic leadership style,organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior： A study from Turkey

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of paternalistic leadership style on justice perceptions of the employees. Even though the impact of organizational justice＇s affect on employee attitudes and behaviors is a huge area of interest, the antecedents of organizational justice perceptions is a topic that needs to be further developed and leadership is one of them. In the previous studies, the impact of transformational and transactional leadership on justice was searched, but the impact of a culturally specific model namely paternalistic leadership hasn＇t been clearly investigated. This study was conducted in Turkey which respects paternalistic culture with 329 employees working in various sectors in Istanbul. The regression analyses proved that paternalistic leadership has an impact on organizational justice perceptions and organizational citizenship behaviors of the employees. And the mediating affect of organizational justice between paternalistic leadership styles and OCB was also questioned. Research models for the next studies and managerial implications were suggested.