Globalization and related technological developments have increased competition and put organizations in a struggle to survive in an extremely difficult market condition. Organizations adopt their technologies and infrastructures to today’s conditions to gain a sustainable competitive advantage and maintain their existence. However, all these efforts of organizations are easily imitated by rival companies and may cause the loss of competitive advantage.

The resource-based view provides additional information that strategic human resource is the scarce, valuable, inimitable and non-substitutable resources of organizations, thus enabling them to gain a competitive advantage. According to this view, the competitive advantage of the organization is achieved by combining valuable internal resources. Nowadays, sustainable competitive advantage is provided not by environmental factors or physical capital but by human capital (employees) efficiency. In this context, the attitudes and behaviors of employees who make up human resources are important for their organizational success. Many studies emphasize that positive attitudes and behaviors (e.g. innovative work behavior, work engagement, job satisfaction) in employees have important contributions to the success of the organization, while similarly negative attitudes and behaviors (e.g. organizational silence, turnover intention) are one of the main reasons for the failure of the organization.

In our book, literature has been created on the definition, antecedents, and organizational results of new and current concepts that are newly conceptualized in the literature and are still in their infancy. It is considered that this cumulative literature within the book will be a source for future studies on these subjects and will provide important insights for practitioners.

Çağdaş maliyet yöntemleri, küreselleşme ve teknolojik gelişmelerle birlikte, yoğun rekabet ortamında hızla değişen müşteri istek ve beklentileri karşısında ürün ve hizmet maliyetlerini daha doğru ve sağlıklı hesaplamak amacıyla geliştirilmiştir. Çağdaş maliyetleme yöntemlerinden kaizen maliyetleme yönteminde ise, maliyetleri minimize etmenin yanında ürünlerde kalite artışı ve üretim yönetim sistemlerinin de geliştirilmesi hedeflenmektedir. İşletmelerin kaizen maliyetleme yöntemini uygulayabilmeleri için gereken temel şart, mevcut durumun yetersiz görülmesi ile bu durumdan daha ileri bir duruma ulaşmanın hedeflenmesidir. Ayrıca kaizen maliyetleme yönteminin işletmelerde uygulamaya konulabilmesi için bu yöntemin işletmenin her kademesindeki bütün çalışanlar tarafından takım çalışmalarıyla uygulanması gerekmektedir.

Bu kitapta, çağdaş maliyet yöntemleri tanıtıldıktan sonra kaizen kavramı ile kaizen kavramının uygulanması ayrıntılı olarak anlatılmakta, kaizen uygulamanın faydaları belirtilmektedir. Çağdaş maliyet yöntemlerinden kaizen maliyetleme yöntemi, kaizen maliyetleme yöntemini başarıyla uygulayan Japon otomobil firması Daihatsu’da sistemin işleyişi ve kaizen maliyetleme süreci bir örnek yardımıyla ayrıntılı bir şekilde tanıtılmaktadır ve günümüze gelinceye kadar ki kaizen maliyetleme yöntemleri ile ilgili literatür taraması yapılmaktadır.

The book “Money laundering phenomenon – foundations, trends, impact and governance in banking industry” explores foundation, models (methods) to measure money laundering, trends, auditing Anti-Money Laundering structures in banking industry, AML risk assessment, impact/effects of money laundering, governance, and regulatory point of view.

The book includes some models that have been used to measure the amount of money laundering, respectively the effect of money laundering in various macroeconomic variables such as economic growth, consumption, investment, government expenditure, export and import. Moreover, there are presented some trends that may dominate in the AML field for coming years.

The strengthening of international cooperation in the field of anti-money laundering have given power to international organisations to recommend mitigating measures, standards and principles and applying them in practise, this is why in the book a special chapter is dedicated to international bodies and organisations to fight money laundering phenomenon.

Due to high importance of the AML risk assessment, as a risk management mechanism framework, a specific chapter is dedicated to it.

A special attention is dedicated to the auditing of AML structures in banking and the role of audit in general to AML field.

Last, but not least, in the book a chapter is dedicated to determinants of informal economy, since money laundering and informal economy are interconnected and needs to be studied as one of the challenges for countries.

We believe our book contributes to current literature on money laundering phenomena and that it is important for bankers, policy makers, strategists, academics, and students.

In this book, we attempt to make a comparative evaluation of modern macroeconomic schools: Monetarism and New Classical School based on the Classical System that envisage automatic full employment or natural rate of unemployment (NRU) equilibrium (AFNE or ANRUE) vs. New Keynesian and Post-Keynesian Economics based on the Keynesian System which gives unemployment equilibrium (UNE) or non-automatic NRU equilibrium (NANRUE) due to insufficiency of aggregate demand.

In order to determine which school is relevant, first the basic assumptions of these systems are compared: i) rational vs. adjusted vs. heterogeneous expectations, ii) existence of perfect competition in all markets leading to flexibility of prices and wages vs. imperfect competition giving rise to rigidities, and iii) presence or lack of coordination between markets.

In the final phase of our evaluations the performance of the developed economies are surveyed to establish whether we meet with AFNE or ANRUE or else UNE or NANRUE; and whether policy prescriptions devised by respective schools solve or alleviate the problem at hand when implemented.

Our investigations point out that New Keynesian and Post-Keynesian schools are more relevant compared to Monetarism and New Classical School. The choice between New Keynesian and Post-Keynesian Economics, however, is more difficult to make although New Keynesian Economics seems more widespread than Post-Keynesian Economics. Objectively, Post-Keynesian assumptions seem more realistic; normatively, however, New Keynesian stands seems more fit to the present day move towards globalization.