Erman Coskun

İzmir Bakırçay University | İZBÜ · Department of Management Information Systems

The integration of digital technologies into healthcare systems within municipalities has elicited a transformative change in the delivery of health services. This paper explores the importance of the digitalization of health services in municipalities and represents relatively selected the most important services by employing fuzzy methods. By exa...

Digital maturity, which emerges as evaluating the digitalization level of businesses and municipalities and guiding them for the digital transformation process, is a very comprehensive concept that has been emphasized in the literature recently. This study provides a conceptual model for assessing the digital maturity of a municipality and analyzin...

Abstract. The aim of this exploratory study is to evaluate the level and methods of adaptation of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to the rapid and unforeseen changes during COVID-19 era through digitization and digital transformation. Although the whole world has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in general, its impact on the busines...

Information systems research lacks a validated scale for assessing and measuring the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The relevant literature is limited in studies mainly concentrating on developing country settings. Furthermore, the emergence of new technological elements...

Today, every firm and organization must digitally transform in order to survive and deal with increasing competition and dynamic market conditions. Digital transformation is not easy to achieve, and many factors play an important role in the successful digital transformation of firms. Leaders' leadership styles and characteristics play a crucial ro...

This study aims to reveal the predictors of individuals’ financial behavior associated with credit default for accurate and reliable credit risk assessment. Within the scope of credit use research, a systematic review of 108 studies was performed. Among the reviewed studies, a fair number have analyzed the determinants of default and delinquency. A...

As a result of the changes in higher education, universities are utilizing business intelligence and analytics applications, which are private-sector practices. This study aimed to determine the extent of the use of business intelligence and analytics applications at Turkish universities. For this purpose, case studies were conducted at 12 Turkish...

Günümüz iş dünyasında sürdürülebilir rekabet avantajının ön koşulu haline gelen dijital dönüşüm, sadece büyük işletmeler için değil küçük ve orta büyüklükteki işletmeler (KOBİ) için de hayati önem taşımaktadır. Ancak dijital dönüşüm tanımı gereği, firmalar önce dijitleştirme daha sonra dijitalleşme safhalarını gerçekleştirir ve sonrasında dijital d...

Bu çalışmada yükseköğretime geçiş aşamasında olan öğrencilerin üniversite ve bölüm tercihlerini etkileyen faktörlerin neler olduğunun tespit edilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Bu bağlamda 2018-2020 arası dönemde İzmir Bakırçay Üniversitesi’nde Yönetim Bilişim Sistemleri Bölümü’nü kazanmış ve halihazırda okumakta olan öğrenciler ile bir anket çalışması yapılmı...

SMEs have a critical position for economy of any countriy and this study aims to examine the effect of entrepreneurship orientation on ICT adoption level in SMEs. The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) is important for SMEs to develop, to catch up with the competition, to take initiatives and thus contribute to individual SME a...

SCIENTOMETRICS-BASED STUDY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH COMMUNITY MACRO LEVEL PROFILES ABSTRACT This paper examines the current state and evolution of Computer Science (CS) and Information Systems (IS) research communities for the period of 2008 to 2019 by analysing Web of Science (WoS) core collection records. In order to...

The aim of this study is to measure and assess information and communications technology (ICT) literacy and information acquisition skills of high school students and their parents, and to determine factors associated with different levels of ICT literacy and information acquisition skills. Within the scope of the study, a measurement model was dev...

This research aims to exploratively search relevant psychological determinants for debt repayment behavior. In this regard, the research question is: Which psychological factors affect the debt repayment behavior? Some research in literature argue that the socio-economic factors alone may not be sufficient to explain debt and repayment behavior, an...

Amaç: Trafik kazaları hem dünyada hem de ülkemizde can ve mal kayıplarına neden olmaktadır. Sakarya ilinde meydana gelen trafik kazalarının incelendiği bu çalışmada, şehirde meydana gelen trafik kazaları arasındaki benzerlik ilişkileri araştırılmış ve bu benzerlik ilişkisinden yola çıkarak belli başlı kaza karakteristikleri belirlenmiştir. Böylelik...

Logistics Information System (LIS) and Transportation Management Systems (VTS) are critical in the food sector. Especially, since dairy products are more sensitive to the temperature change and physical damage, finding and solving problems by tracking carriers and monitoring environmental effects are the main topics that LIS and TMS aim to solve. T...

Studies of adoption and utilization level of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in SME context have examined a wide range of antecedents of ICT adoption in addition to its consequences. Characteristics of SMEs are totally different in terms of resources, knowledge, skills, decision making mechanisms and authority. Limited resources a...

Rapid development in the area of information and communication technologies brings significant opportunities in the field of disaster management as well as many other areas. In this context, determining which technological components are more effective for disaster management may provide important benefits for the practice. The purpose of this stud...

In public transportation literature, researchers increasingly tend to evaluate the service efficiency of bus transit units in addition to their operational efficiency. Evaluation of both operational and service efficiencies provides a more comprehensive performance analysis for decision-makers. This paper proposes a non-radial data envelopment anal...

Amaç: Trafik kazaları hem dünyada hem de ülkemizde can ve mal kayıplarına neden olmaktadır. Sakarya ilinde meydana gelen trafik kazalarının incelendiği bu çalışmada, şehirde meydana gelen trafik kazaları arasındaki benzerlik ilişkileri araştırılmış ve bu benzerlik ilişkisinden yola çıkarak belli başlı kaza karakteristikleri belirlenmiştir. Böylelik...

Sosyal ağlar, insan ilişkilerinin söz konusu olduğu her alanda karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Aile içi ilişkilerin düzenlenmesinde akrabalık ağları, sınıf içi ilişkilerin düzenlenmesinde arkadaşlık ağları, alıcı-satıcı etkileşiminde, tedarik zincirinin üyeleri arasında, yapısal rekabetin yaşandığı pazarlarda, firmalar düzeyinde işletmeler arasında bir anla...

Development levels of societies are highly correlated with the efficiency in usage of information and communication technologies between people belonging to those particular societies. For this reason, this study aims to investigate ICT literacy levels of high school students, to find out the general profile in terms of literacy levels and to revea...

Currently, higher education institutions in Turkey are in a restructuring process. For higher education institutions, IT departments have critical roles and importance. In this new restructuring process, it is necessary to discuss the structuring of new IT departments and their institutional roles, which will meet the needs of the times, where the...

Today, universities aim to find ways for achieving international standards by enhancing quality of the education and to climb in ranking tables. This situation makes higher education a highly competitive area and transforms universities into business-like organizations. Similar to businesses which utilize information systems for a wide variety of t...

Recently, there have been several efforts to develop ranking systems for universities. Increasing competititon and need for competitiveness as a result of globalization, knowledge based economy and growing interest of information related to higher education institutions due to increasing mobility of people all served for the remarkable popularity o...

Today one of the most famous terms of the business world is business analytics. Business analytics aims to gain insights from data with a scientific process for making better decisions (Camm et al., 2015:5). Higher education is one of the new fields where business analytics are utilized. Universities, like businesses have stored large amounts of da...

Tüm Dünya’da olduğu gibi ülkemizde de trafiğe çıkan taşıt sayısı her geçen gün artmaktadır. Ülkemizde karayollarına çıkan taşıt sayısının artmasına paralel olarak trafik kazaları da çoğalmaktadır. Ayrıca Türkiye’de gelişmiş ülkelerin aksine, yük ve yolcu taşımacılığının büyük bir çoğunluğunun karayolu aracılığıyla yapılması nedeniyle de trafik kaza...

In addition to their operational efficiency, the service level based performance dimensions of transit systems has begun to attract the attention of several researchers in recent years. The consideration of both operational efficiency and service level performance enables a more comprehensive performance evaluation for bus transit operators. This s...

Energy consumption of Iron and Steel Industry sector in Turkey has the highest share in final energy consumption. In the globalized world, day by day, worsening of the conditions of competition and negative environmental pressures, more efficient energy usage is come to the forefront. Growing industries can survive by providing efficient energy con...

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The increasing amount of data has become an important issue for the business world of the modern day. In a highly competitive environment, it is critical for businesses to obtain the data they need from various sources. Meaningful information that can be procured on demand is a critically important tool that provides businesses with a sustainable c...

Lojistik sektörünün ülkemizde yüzbinlerce kişiye iş imkânı sağlaması ve en hızlı gelişen sektörlerden birisi olmasına karşın, bu alandaki eğitim imkânları son derece kısıtlıdır. Bu durum, gelişen lojistik sektörünün nitelikli insan kaynağı ihtiyacının yeterince karşılanamaması sonucunu doğurmaktadır. Bu çalışma, ülkemizde lojistik eğitimi veren üni...

In order to maintain their position in the global environment, it is very important for developing countries to attach importance to innovation, to increase its science and technology capacity and to use information and communication technologies more efficiently. The main aim of this study is to reveal the usage of Business Intelligence BI in ente...

Traffic accidents are one of the main causes of economic and social losses, especially in developing countries. Among studies aiming to reduce losses from accidents by determining their causes, those which analyze existing accidents are the most numerous. A traffic accident, by its nature, consists of many factors. Therefore, the data stored in the...

Lojistik sektörünün ülkemizde yüzbinlerce kişiye iş imkânı sağlaması ve en hızlı gelişen sektörlerden birisi olmasına karşın, bu alandaki eğitim imkânları son derece kısıtlıdır. Bu durum, gelişen lojistik sektörünün nitelikli insan kaynağı ihtiyacının yeterince karşılanamaması sonucunu doğurmaktadır. Bu çalışma, ülkemizde lojistik eğitimi veren üni...

Son yıllarda, sosyal ağ kapsamında gerçekleşen bireysel olaylara ait kararların anlaşılması ve modellenmesi üzerine birçok çalışma yapılmaktadır. Bilgisayar temelli iletişim, dijital veri depolama, Web 2.0 teknolojilerinin sunmuş olduğu kullanıcı etkileşimli dinamik yapı, sosyal ağ sitelerinin sunmuş olduğu yeni veri kaynakları ilginç araştırma sor...

Bu çalışma, Sakarya’da meydana gelen ve toplu taşıma araçlarının karıştığı ölümlü ve yaralanmalı trafik kazalarının analiz edilmesini ve kümelenmesini amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaçla, Sakarya’da 2006 - 2012 yılları arasındaki yedi yıllık sürede toplu taşıma araçlarının karıştığı toplam 525 trafik kazası çevre koşulları açısından incelenmiş ve k-ortalamal...

Bu çalışma, Sakarya'da meydana gelen ve toplu taşıma araçlarının karıştığı ölümlü ve yaralanmalı trafik kazalarının analiz edilmesini ve kümelenmesini amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaçla, Sakarya'da 2006 – 2012 yılları arasındaki yedi yıllık sürede toplu taşıma araçlarının karıştığı toplam 525 trafik kazası çevre koşulları açısından incelenmiş ve k-ortalamal...

Bu araştırma, özelleştirme sonrasında limanların operasyonel etkinlik seviyelerinin incelenmesi amacıyla yapılmıştır. Bu amaçla, Türkiye’de 1997 yılında özelleştirilen beş limana ait veriler değerlendirilerek, özelleştirilmelerini takip eden 14 yıllık sürede etkinlik seviyelerinde meydana gelen değişimler yıllar itibariyle ve karşılaştırmalı olarak...

This study is an attempt to examine the land and equipment performances of thirteen Turkish ports and thus, suggesting managerial implications to improve their efficiencies. To reach this aim, we structured two distinct and independent models for land and equipment efficiency. An input oriented data envelopment analysis was employed to measure the...

Efficient use of information technologies is considered a crucial factor to identify a society’s level of development. After the 1980s, when the internet became increasingly popular, in particular in the developed world, the existing gap to the developing world was amplified – thus referred to as digital divide. In the past, the issue of digital di...

Business Intelligence provides the transformation of enterprise data to information to support fact-based decision-making and the accessibility of this information by the right people at the right time. The accessibility of the information is occurred by business intelligence applications. Business intelligence applications consist of tools which t...

As a result of rapidly changing consumer needs, an increasing number of substitution products as well as accelerated contraction of the markets and constantly increasing competition force business organizations to distinguish from others to survive. An important step in achieving competitive advantage is to follow evolving technologies, harmonize t...

Amaç: Bilişim teknolojilerinin etkin kullanımı, bilgiye erişimin gün geçtikçe önem kazanmasıyla birlikte toplumların gelişmişlik düzeylerini belirleyen en önemli unsurlardan biri haline gelmiştir. Öte yandan bilgi ve iletişim teknolojilerine (BİT) erişimde ve kullanımda yaşanan eşitsizlik nedeniyle 1980’lerden ve özellikle internetin yaygınlaşmasın...

Sosyal medya, Web 2.0 teknolojisinin sağlamış olduğu yapıyı kullanarak kullanıcı temelli dev bir iletişim platformu haline gelmiştir. Öyle ki içeriğin kullanıcı tarafından oluşturulduğu, zaman mekan bağımsız bilgi paylaşım platformu olan sosyal medya üzerinden ülkelerin gündemleri değiştirilebilmekte, büyük kitleler harekete geçirilerek büyük toplu...

Healthcare status is determined with data regarding the health indicators of the world population. This status is important for preventing the contagion of diseases around the world in an early manner. If healthcare resources were distributed equally around the world, disease rates would decrease significantly. Health is also affected by economic a...

İletişim teknolojilerindeki gelişmeler ve günlük yaşama yansımaları interneti insanoğlunun en önemli ihtiyaçlarından biri haline getirmiştir. İnternet teknolojilerinin günümüzdeki en yaygın kullanımlarından biri sosyal yazılım araçları aracılığı ile gerçekleştirilmektedir. Sosyal yazılımların özellikle genç nesiller arasındaki popülaritesi, son yıl...

Logistics is a source of competitive advantage for most of firms which operate in markets where product variety and quantity are high and where suppliers and customers spread throughout wide geographic regions. So, logistics education and skilled labor force has become important for logistics sector. In this paper, researchers aim to assess the sta...

Efficiency measurement of decision making units (DMUs) is vital for effective management of these units. The aim of this research is to measure the efficiencies of four participating passenger ports comparatively and to evaluate the changes occurred in their efficiencies during the period of eight years from 2003 to 2010. To measure the time depend...

"Stratejik" ön eki günümüzde birçok alanda kullanıldığı gibi lojistik literatüründe de kendisine yer bulmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, geniş bir kullanım alanına sahip olan "stratejik" önekine yüklenen/yüklenmek istenen anlamları açıklamak ve bu bağlamda "stratejik lojistik" kavramı ile geleneksel lojistik arasındaki kavramsal farkları ortaya koyma...

Trafik kazaları tüm Dünya’da olduğu gibi ülkemizde de toplumun en önemli sorunlarından biridir. Dünya genelinde yılda ortalama 1,2 milyondan fazla kişi trafik kazalarında ölmekte ve 20-50 milyon arası kişide yaralanmakta veya sakat kalmaktadır. Dünya Sağlık Örgütü (WHO), 2030 yılına kadar trafik kazalarında yaralanma sonrası ölümlerin, tüm ölüm ned...

Bu araştırma, küçük ve orta ölçekli işletmelerin çevrecilik algılarını açıklamak ve onların perspektifinden tedarikçilerinin ve müşterilerinin çevrecilik hakkındaki tutum ve görüşlerini ortaya koymak amacıyla yapılmıştır. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre, küçük ve orta ölçekli işletmelerin çevrecilik konusunda yeterince bilgi sahibi olmadıkları ve rekabe...

Quantitative measures have traditionally been used to measure and evaluate port efficiency. The objective of this research is to measure the operational efficiencies of 6 Turkish passenger ports comparatively. To do this, researchers defined some financial and operational metrics which determine the efficiency and used the data envelopment analysis...

The aim of this study is to set forth the relationship of economic and social factors with logistics performance of countries', which is very important for their competitiveness. To achieve this, researchers had correlated the logistics performances of twenty six OECD countries with a variety of economic and social indicators and interpreted the re...

Mostly embittered by necessities, adoption, and implementation of the Information Systems(IS), technology usage in the organizations is growing rapidly. At these early stages of technology use, one weighty matter for executives and instructors is the success of Information Systems. Having made a literature review to assess the success of the system...

Disasters are constantly happening in the world and people suffer as a result of these disasters. The Van Earthquake and many others which have occurred in the past few years in Turkey, and disasters around the world like the South Asian Earthquake and the tsunami which followed in 2004, the earthquake in Pakistan, Hurricane Katrina and the humanit...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the learner styles of a healthcare institution transition team and its respective members within a change management context. In particular we focus on the role of learner style in the success of change efforts within a team setting. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents a case study th...

Today, profit-oriented traditional management paradigm is the dominant management paradigm in our world and environmental management paradigm is not strong enough to suppress it. So, the adoption of green initiatives by supply chain members, which mostly exposed by traditional management paradigm, is possible if these initiatives are not contrary w...

In order to maintain their position in the global environment, it is very important for developing countries to attach importance to innovation, to increase its science and technology capacity and to use information and communication technologies more efficiently, especially in SMEs which are backbone of the economy. The main aim of this study is t...

There are numerous studies that have revealed that the green practices would increase or decrease the competitive advantage of firms [1]. However, the general assumption is that the green initiatives results with a cost increase (at least at the beginning). Beyond the cost increase, green initiatives can lead the emergence of some changes in their...

In order to maintain their position in the global environment, it is very important for developing countries to attach importance to innovation, increase its science and technology capacity and to use information and communication technologies more efficiently. The main aim of this study is to reveal the usage of information technology (IT) and its...

ZET Değişen pazarlama anlayışının izdüşümü olan Müşteri İlişkileri Yönetimi (CRM-MİY), kavramı işletmeler için, müşteriyi pazarlama çabalarının odağı haline getiren yeni bir dönemin kapısını açmıştır. Pazarlama anlayışı öncesi dönemlerde pazarlama çabalarının sadece pazarlama bölümünü ilgilendirdiği düşüncesi yerini, bu dönemle birlikte, pazarlaman...

The main purpose of this study is to analyze whether a digital divide exists among European Union (EU) members, new members, and candidate countries. Beyond this, the second goal is to find out if a digital divide has a significant association with the process of becoming an EU member. First, member, new member, and candidate countries are classifi...

In this study, effect of long term smoking on sensitivity of cough reflex was investigated. Healthy, current smoker male and female was evaluated by capsaicin cough challenge test and they were compared with healthy, non-smoker persons with similar age and gender, prospectively. In current smokers, there were 50 male and 39 female, in non-smoker co...

Natural or man-made disasters frequently occur in different countries and disaster types and consequences might differ immensely depending on that country's unique characteristics. While probability of a man-made disaster occurrence will be high for technologically advanced countries as a result of using technology in almost every aspect of daily l...

The Prevalence And Risk Factors of Allergies in Turkey (PARFAIT) study was planned to evaluate prevalence and risk factors of asthma and allergic diseases and also to find out which geographical variables and/or climatic conditions play a role determining the prevalence of allergic diseases in Turkish school children. Study was planned as cross-sec...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of asthma and allergic symptoms in Manisa city center, Turkey, to evaluate the determinants effective on those values, and to review the prevalence rates reported from different parts of the country. Data were collected from 610 households and complete interviews were conducted with 1,336 adults...

Applications of intelligent software systems are proliferating. As these systems proliferate, understanding and measuring their complexity becomes vital, especially in safety-critical environments. This paper proposes a model assessing the impacts of complexity for a particular type of intelligent software system, embedded intelligent real-time sys...

The importance of the user interface increases particularly in safety-critical or mission-critical systems where the user has time limitations within which to make correct, accurate, and timely decisions. User interfaces for these type of systems should be well-designed, easy to understand and easy to use in order to be accepted by expert users and...

Airport security is a very relevant, diverse, and complex system in any country. September 11 th made this issue an increasing concern for almost every country in the world. Prior to September 11th the media, watchdog groups, and commissions established by the United States Congress, were adamant that airport security had major flaws. Currently man...

This study is aimed to evaluate the incidence of silicosis and the relation of it with personal and work-related factors among workers exposed to silica in ceramic factory. Workers were evaluated by respiratory symptoms, physical examination, pulmonary function and radiological findings. Occupational and Enviromental Pulmonary Disease Evaluation Qu...

In this study, measuring processes of fiducial marks are performed with area based matching method. A computer program in Borland C++ Builder software is developed to find out the image fiducial marks particularly for this project. Ten images were taken by Wild RC 10 camera. They belonged to Selcuk University Campus area. The films were scanned by...

The importance of the user interface increases particularly in safety-critical or mission-critical systems where the user has time limitations within which to make correct decisions. User interfaces for these type of systems should be well-designed, easy to understand and use. Otherwise mishaps or accidents may occur and consequences of accidents m...

Intelligent systems and their applications are proliferating. Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Systems (EIRTS) are one type of intelligent system. Defining and measuring the complexity of this kind of system may help with better design, development, maintenance, and performance of EIRTS. In this paper, we propose a set of evaluation criteria to measu...

Embedded Intelligent Real-Time Systems (EIRTS) are proliferating in many safety-critical large-scale systems where safety and reliability are important. EIRTS are often introduced in safety-critical large-scale systems to improve the reliability and safety, although, in many cases, they also increase the system's complexity. Defining, understanding...

This paper describes the methodology of a DEM generation from stereo aerial images and the results of experiments in terms of accuracy of generated DEM. In this study, Images, which have 1/10000 and 1/16000 scale, and a test area established about 1 km 2 in Selcuk University Campus Area were used. Aerial photographs were scanned by ZEISS SCAI Photo...