Baki, Birdoğan; Ar, Ilker Murat; Peker, İskender

Purpose: Environmental innovation is innovative activities which is aimed at reducing or eliminating the environmental impacts of a product from its production to recycling. In this context, it can be stated that the environmental innovation approach is important for logistics firms. It is aimed to evaluate the environmental innovation performance of logistics firms in this study. Methodology: A two-stage Multi Criteria Decision Making approach is used for this purpose. In the first stage, environmental innovation factors obtained from the literature are weighted by Fuzzy AHP. In the second stage, logistics firms are ranked according to the environmental innovation performances by Fuzzy VIKOR. Findings: The results of the analysis revealed that the two most important factors in evaluating the environmental innovation performance of logistics firms are green design and green energy respectively. Practical Implications: Successful green design practices can reduce the prevention costs for environmental impacts of logistics firms. In particular, innovations on the use of renewable energy and reducing the emissions will improve the potential environmental impacts of logistics firms in a positive way. Originality: This study provides an important contribution to the literature because it is the first study evaluating Turkish logistics firms in terms of environmental innovation performance in Turkey.

Ağaç, Gökhan; Baki, Birdoğan

Health care is a vital importance for the society as well as play an important role in improving the welfare of the society. The purpose of this study is to present a detailed comprehensive literature review of the Multi-criteria Decision Making techniques (MCDM) in health and health care. The literature review was conducted with the help of relevant keywords on five different international databases. The findings show that Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is the most widely used technique as well as the most widely used integrated techniques are Analytical Network Processbased (ANP-based). Also in recent years, it has been seen that increased in use of MCDA techniques

Ağaç, Gökhan; Baki, Birdoğan; Ar, Ilker Murat; Peker, İskender

Serbest Bölgeler; istihdamı artırarak, yabancı sermaye çekerek, teknoloji transfer olanak sağlayarak ve ihracatı artırarak kurulduğu bölgenin refahına katkıda bulunur.çalışmada, Doğu Anadolu Bölgesi illerinde kurulacak olası bir Serbest Bölge için yer seç uygulaması yapılmıştır. Bu uygulama için Çok Kriterli Karar Verme tekniklerinden AH TOPSIS, VIKOR ve ELECTRE kullanılmıştır. Serbest Bölge yer seçiminde etkili ol kriterlerin ağırlıklarını belirlemek için AHP kullanılırken alternatifleri arasında sırala yapmak için TOPSIS, VIKOR ve ELECTRE yöntemleri kullanılmıştır. Buna göre; Serb Bölge yer seçiminde etkili olan en önemli üç kriter ülkelere yakınlık, ihracat miktarıdevlet teşviki olurken Serbest Bölgenin kurulacağı ilk üç il sırasıyla Iğdır, Hakkâri ve Van olduğu tespit edilmiştir.

Baki, Birdoğan; Ar, Ilker Murat; Peker, İskender

The main purpose of this study is to determine the importance degree of the barriers in the University-Industry Cooperation (UIC) by Karadeniz Technical University’s faculty members. As a result of the Analytic Network Process (ANP) was performed for this purpose, “Structural Problems”, “Problems Caused by Industry”, “Problems Caused by Faculty Members” and “Problems Caused by University” were determined as the main obstacles of UIC. Furthermore, “Undeveloped Cooperation Culture” was determined as the most important sub-criteria when it was examined in more detail. “Lack of Interest from Industrialists” and “Bureaucratic Barriers” are came after from this sub-criteria.

Ağaç, Gökhan; Baki, Birdoğan; Ar, Ilker Murat; Peker, İskender

In this study, efficiency level of affiliated enterprises to the General Directorate of Post and Telegraph Organization (PTT), a public institution, in 76 cities is analyzed for the period 2006-2010. Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and change in the composition of TFP in each city were examined using the Malmquist-TFP index method for a given period. The obtained results correspond that an increase of 46.6% in total productivity is revealed in the related period and this increase is largely due to the increase in technological change

Baki, Birdoğan; Peker, İskender

Bu çalışmanın amacı, sigorta sektöründe faaliyet gösteren üç şirketi finansal performanslarına göre sıralamaktır. Bu amaçla, gri ilişkisel Analiz yöntemi kullanılarak likidite, kaldıraç ve kârlılık oranları yardımıyla performans ölçümünde bulunulmuştur. Likidite oranları yüksek olan bir Ģirketin finansal performansının da yüksek olabileceği sonucuna varılmıĢtır.