M.A. Theses: Recent submissions

  • The opportunities and limitations of using OLAP cubes for business intelligence reporting in banking 
    Ulaş, Onur Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    New rules of competition and rapid changes within the industry force banks to create new business strategies and be more efficient in making decisions. OLAP is a business intelligence technology utilized for rapid access ...
  • Critical human success factors for ERP projects 
    İyigün, Nüket. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    Many companies invest huge amount of money on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions in order to build strong capabilities, improve their performance, improve operations and profitability, undertake better decision-making, ...
  • Value of information in vendor managed supply chains 
    Aytekin, Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    Parallel to the advances in information technologies and growing awareness of information sharing in supply chains, vendor managed inventory systems have become an opportunity in supply chain management. In this study we ...
  • Feature analysis of an information systems product development: the case of e-mail systems 
    Sofuoğlu, Ecehan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    Improving the product development processes is gaining importance as the competitive business environment creates this need. "Customer" becomes the main focus in the new product development area and customer desires take ...
  • Structural analysis of software industry organizations in Turkey 
    Başol, Esra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    Information Technology is one of the fastest growing industries in recent years, creating significant opportunities to the economies of countries. The software industry, a sub-field of information technology, performs ...
  • Factors affecting online shopping behavior of Turkish consumers 
    Turan, Tunca. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    Online shopping have became a new way of purchasing in the last decade in addition to the traditional shopping methods. The growing pattern of online shopping forced managers to direct their resources for developing their ...
  • Online price-related behavior and attitude toward various pricing models 
    Özdemir, Gözde. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    The importance of consumer attitudes and behavior toward price on purchase processes has long been known. Retailers have employed different marketing applications periodically in order to shape and direct these attitudes ...
  • Consumer trust in the online environment 
    Çakmak, Emre. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    In recent years, the use of internet is growing rapidly in Turkey. With the rise of the internet usage, shopping habits of Turkish people has also changed. The amount of online sales increased by more than ten times between ...
  • On the Axelrod’s social influence model with obstruction 
    Eden, Neval Polat. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    People associate and bond with similar others (the principle of homophily). The interactions resulting from these bonds even make them more similar (the principle of social influence). Despite this tendency towards local ...
  • Evaluating e-learning environment by using data mining techniques 
    Aydoğan, Yasemin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    Learning is an inevitable life-long process for human beings and today, the concept of continuous learning gets much more acceptance. The demanding nature of today‟s life conditions force people and corporations to invest ...
  • A simulation based decision support system for workforce management in call centers 
    Başarır, Birgül. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    Workforce Management is critical in the call centers where thousands of calls are handled by hundreds of agents everyday. In a call center, where the call arrival rates tend to flutuate during the day, the agent allocation ...
  • A decision support system for generating optimal raw milk managment strategies in a dairy supply chain 
    Gül, Burak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    The main supply of the dairy business, raw milk, is one the most volatile supplies in fast-moving goods businesses since there are many areas that cause complexities. Raw milk has a high supply seasonality that contradicts ...
  • Development of a constraint based sequential pattern mining tool 
    Yılmaz, Gülşah. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Sequential pattern mining is an important data mining task with wide applications. In traditional sequential pattern mining techniques, the main purpose is to discover sequences that are frequent. The information acquired ...
  • Consumer loyalty in the online environment 
    Kıran, Selçuk. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    The importance of consumer loyalty to the web sites has long been known. Researchers have introduced some models to explain the antecedents of and the factors that affect e-loyalty. Within the scope of this study, the ...
  • The effects of dynamic packaging systems on the performance of travel organizations 
    Çalışkan, Semra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2011., 2011.)
    The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of Dynamic Packaging (DP) Systems on the performance of hotels and travel agencies. This study is conducted in three main phases. In the first phase; in order to analyze ...
  • Framework for evaluation of purchasing process in ERP systems in terms of internal control risks 
    Acar, Derya. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The companies have made major investments for their ERP systems. On the other hand, as a result of many financial scandals and frauds, internal control structures of the companies have been one of the hot topic issues. ...
  • A simulation based decision support system for supply chain management 
    Sancar, Ayşe Ürün. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)
    This study focuses on the improvement of supply chain performance in one of the biggest commodity product manufacturers in Turkey. The aim is to generate a tool that runs as a Decision Support System (DSS) and procides an ...
  • Critical success factors affecting e-commerce activities of small and medium enterprises in Turkey 
    Coşgun, Volkan. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Electronic commerce, one of the most popular business phenomena in these years, is creating new opportunities and threats against business. It is redefining customer supplier relationships, business processes, even sometimes ...
  • Finding hidden patterns of hospital infections on the newborn in Turkey: A data mining approach 
    Aksoy, İnci. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    The increasing number of hospital infections with considerable morbidity, mortality and economic burden attracts the attention of not only the health-care environment, but also the whole society. In some medical centers, ...
  • Prediction of IMKB sector indices by using artificial neural networks 
    Çevik, Ömer Faruk. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Stock market predictions play an important role for making right investment decisions. Investors can gain very high returns in short time in stock exchanges if correct stocks are chosen or they can lose their earning. ...

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