Economic cybercrime is one of the unwelcomed consequences of unprecedented intrusion of the Internet in our daily lives. Academic interest in understanding the causes and adverse impacts of cybercrime is growing. Opportunity perspective, which perceives individuals’ daily routines and lifestyles as the primary facilitator of victimization, has been widely applied as a theoretical and conceptual framework in cybercrime victimization research. However, this approach put the responsibility of the victimization on victims explicitly, which hampers the application of crime prevention and reduction efforts. This book presents the Contextual Vulnerabilities approach based on the significant findings of a doctoral study conducted at Durham University in the United Kingdom. Contextual vulnerabilities approach posits that cybercrime victimization is the outcome of the confluence of contextual factors that are mostly beyond victims’ control. This approach presumes that controlling individual (micro-level), macro-level and socio-cultural vulnerabilities may prevent cybercrime victimization. Though the preliminary goal of this book is to provide a new theoretical perspective to scholars researching victimization in cyberspace, I hope the wider audience would find it informative.

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.

Tüm Dünya’da “Corporate Governance” olarak ifade edilen “Kurumsal Yönetim”; firmalara ilişkin taraflar arasındaki çıkar çatışmalarını ortadan kaldırmayı hedefleyen, firmaların daha iyi yönetilmesi konusunda çeşitli standartların belirlenmesine yönelik modern bir yönetim anlayışıdır.

Bu kitapta, firmaların nasıl etkin ve verimli bir biçimde yönetilebileceği konusunda özellikle son dönemde gündeme gelen kurumsal yönetim uygulamaları firma yönetim kurulları çerçevesinde ele alınmaktadır.

Kitabın hazırlanmasındaki amaç, firmaların pay sahipleri ve diğer paydaşları ile üst yönetimi arasında ortaya çıkan çıkar çatışmalarını en aza indirme konusunda önemli bir kontrol mekanizması olan yönetim kurullarının yapısı ve işleyişi hakkında okuyuculara detaylı bir şekilde bilgi sunmaktır. Bu bağlamda kurumsal yönetim uygulamaları ve firma performansı arasındaki ilişkiler ekonometrik olarak analiz edilerek kurumsal yönetim uygulamalarının firma performansı üzerindeki etkileri ayrıntılı olarak tartışılmıştır.