http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/4 2026-10-28T19:44:11Z 2026-10-28T19:44:11Z Ekinci, F. Didem http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/8525 2024-11-04T10:29:50Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

South Caucasus and COVID-19: Vulnerabilities, Setbacks, Responses Ekinci, F. Didem This chapter discusses the impact and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in the South Caucasus. In the framework of the main argument that multiple regional vulnerabilities and setbacks in healthcare systems and economic capacity inherited from the Soviet era shaped the response capacity of the regional actors with the outbreak of the pandemic, it first provides an account of the pre-pandemic background conditions in these spheres in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, going back to the Soviet period. It then explores the post-1991 and pandemic period conditions in respect of the same actors in the same spheres, maintaining that the pandemic exacerbated the earlier vulnerabilities and led to limited responses. The final analysis affirms the findings and offers some recommendations for the future.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Kalemci, Arzu Benedikter, Roland Gruber, Mirjam Kofler, Ingrid http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/8513 2024-09-30T07:11:37Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Re-Globalization New Frontiers of Political, Economic, and Social Globalization Kalemci, Arzu; Benedikter, Roland; Gruber, Mirjam; Kofler, Ingrid

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Çorakçı, Ayşegül Omay, Tolga http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/8480 2024-06-05T11:00:26Z 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z

Is there convergence in renewable energy deployment? Evidence from a new panel unit root test with smooth and sharp structural breaks Çorakçı, Ayşegül; Omay, Tolga This study examines whether the contribution of renewable energy to the total primary energy supply converges in a panel of 24 OECD countries over the period 1960–2020. To this end, a new panel unit root test that allows for both sharp and smooth breaks is proposed to test for the stochastic convergence hypothesis. Although renewable energy convergence is not rejected when the newly proposed test is applied to the full panel of OECD countries, it found only moderate support within the members of the panel using a sequential panel selection methodology. In fact, in two high-income OECD countries, the contribution of renewable energy to the primary energy supply shows no sign of convergence: Poland and Iceland. Therefore, the renewable energy shares seem to be converging to a common steady state in only a group of OECD countries over the long run. This uneven pattern of convergence, in turn, suggests that the OECD countries are still far away from developing a common sustainable renewable energy target, calling for urgent international policy cooperation to encourage the divergent economies to seek out the menu of policies that ensure the worldwide success of renewable energy transformation.

2023-03-01T00:00:00Z Karapolatgil, Ahmet Anıl Şener, İrge http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/8478 2024-06-05T11:00:16Z 2023-04-28T00:00:00Z

Industry 4.0 Readiness of SMEs: Active Participants or Silent Audience of the Revolution? Karapolatgil, Ahmet Anıl; Şener, İrge Nowadays, the technological consequences of the Fourth Industrial Revolution affect all organisations. However, the current reactions of SMEs have yet to be explored. For this reason, this study focused on the actual status of SMEs and aimed to determine their readiness and awareness of Industry 4.0 technologies. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 44 SME managers operating in Ankara, constituting the study sample. Research findings were examined within the scope of 3 main themes determined by content analysis. In this context, it has been concluded that SMEs in the sample have low awareness of Industry 4.0, and their readiness needs to be improved.

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