“Türk sigorta acentelerin özellikleri; yönetim ve organizasyon yapıları üzerine bir araştırma” konulu”doktora” tezimden esinlenerek hazırladığım kitabım 1996  yılında yayınlandı. Aradan 22 yıl geçti o yıllarda yıllık 1 milyar USD olan sigorta prim üretimi 10 milyar USD yaklaştı. 2007 yılında sigortacılık kanunu yayınlandı, acenteler yönetmeliği değişti ve sektörde yabancı sermayenin payı çok yükseldi. Acente; sigorta şirketi adına bir sözleşmeye dayanarak, sigortanın pazarlamasına aracılık faaliyetlerinde bulunan bir olgu ve 2017 yılında toplam prim üretiminin % 55’i sigorta acenteleri tarafından yapılıyor. Toplam prim üretiminde en yüksek pay 2017 yılında da acentelere aittir. Sigorta acentelerinin yönetim ve organizasyon ilişkisini detaylı bir şekilde ele alan akademik bir çalışmadır.

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.

Financial time series including high frequency structures like jumps, spikes and stochastic volatility are usually modeled in an ad-hoc manner by stochastic differential equations together with Levy processes. Estimating the parameters and determining the jump size distributions do not have a precise and universally accepted method. Under these circumstances, complexities and confusions usually arise. This book, approaches to this issue from a very different angle through introducing an autocorrelation one process together with finite number of Fourier series terms. Introduction of Fourier series to estimate the dynamics of the process is not done in an ad-hoc manner or as done before in dealing with seasonality. Here the moving average is transformed to a “moving and fluctuating” average by the help of Fourier series. Instead of adding jump structures to the model which makes the parameter estimation quite cumbersome, our model in discrete time can easily be transformed to a well-known mean reverting continuous time process. Moreover, our alternative model turned out to be a quite powerful and accurate forecasting technique.