Papers by Oğuz N . Babüroğlu
European journal of workplace innovation, Oct 23, 2019
Sabanci is a major Turkish holding company. The company built the impressive Sabanci University c... more Sabanci is a major Turkish holding company. The company built the impressive Sabanci University campus, outside Istanbul. Teaching started in 1999. The Library is called the İnformation Centre,The Performance Centre, Student Centre and Sports Centre are very modern. The 50-bedroom Education Development Unit is on the top floor of the Business School. Catering services are excellent.
Springer eBooks, 1993
Surrendering to the environment changes the focus of design from the educational system to an env... more Surrendering to the environment changes the focus of design from the educational system to an environmental adaptive capacity. The objective of surrendering is to produce non-learning whereby all previous assumptions are shattered. One such environmental capacity is learner’s anonymous (LA) which is a structured environment to facilitate surrendering. In LA individuals suspend perceived notions of self in the pursuit of access to a larger whole through a group process methodology.
Systemic Practice and Action Research, Nov 11, 2012
and participants in a USF Tampa Management Department faculty seminar for comments on earlier ver... more and participants in a USF Tampa Management Department faculty seminar for comments on earlier versions.
Dialogues on work and innovation, 1996
İktisat işletme ve finans, Jun 1, 1992
Industrial & environmental crisis quarterly, 1994
While privatization has been well documented in terms of economic and financial analysis, little ... more While privatization has been well documented in terms of economic and financial analysis, little has been written about its impact on organizational culture. This paper aims to describe a crisis caused by the privatization of the organizational culture of Sumerbank, the oldest state-owned conglomer ate in Turkey, to examine the possible impact of privatization of the employ ees, and to show the culture clash between the taken-for granted economic and financial assumptions of privatization and the fact of being a "Sumerbankian"—the symbolic label of a withering organizational culture.
Human Relations, Mar 1, 1988
This paper develops a conceptual scheme to extend the Emery-Trist levels of organizational enviro... more This paper develops a conceptual scheme to extend the Emery-Trist levels of organizational environments to a fifth level consistent with premises laid in their milestone paper (Emery and Trist, Ig6S/Vol. III). The mounting evidence of maladaptive responses to turbulent environments is the second reason for undertaking this challenge. More specifically, the prevalence of stalemate, polarization, and monothematic dogmatism-the second-order maladaptive responses to the turbulent environment-leads to the frozen or clinched order of connectedness as well as unevenly turbulent conditions. Consequently, a different causal texture of an organizational environment can be added to the previous levels (placed, random; placid, clustered; disturbed-reactive; and turbulent).
Concepts and Transformation, 1996
The search conference has come to be regarded as a critical intervention strategy within interorg... more The search conference has come to be regarded as a critical intervention strategy within interorganizational domains. Yet the existing literature focuses more on the search conference as an event and less on what happens after the event. This paper focuses on post-search conference strategies in interorganizational domains. Four follow-up strategies — abort, fizzle-out, sustain, and diffuse and dissipate — emerge in the assessment of two search conference-based interventions in two different industries in Turkey. The paper shows that these strategies are co-produced in two dimensions: dialogue conditions among the stakeholders in the domain and the leadership strength of the referent organization.
Systems practice, Jun 1, 1992
This paper is written to accomplish two objectives: first, to introduce the Emery-Trist systems p... more This paper is written to accomplish two objectives: first, to introduce the Emery-Trist systems paradigm to the critical systems thinking, a largely neglected and underutilized paradigm; second using a critical systems thinking framework, to provide a rational justification in an attempt to track the developments in the ETSP so that an extended heuristic map is offered to the scholars interested in the Emery-Trist systems paradigm. Four tracks within ETSP are identified and analyzed to produce a liberation theme that has not previously been articulated. The liberation theme imminent in all four tracks of the paradigm development denotes the value and the promise of the ETSP to the critical systems thinking community as well as to other systems thinkers.
Research in Organizational Change and Development, 2021
We revisit the original meaning of turbulence in the socioecological tradition of organization st... more We revisit the original meaning of turbulence in the socioecological tradition of organization studies and outline a perspective on strategy making grounded in that tradition. This entails a contrast of the socioecological perspective with the more well-known neoclassical perspective on strategy, based on their core decision premises and their different understandings of environmental turbulence. We argue that while some mainstream strategy approaches have taken important strides toward addressing advanced turbulence, many others remain tethered to the neoclassical origins of the strategy discipline and are insufficiently responsive to the new landscape of strategy that now characterizes many industries. This new landscape is construed as the 'hyper environment', in which positive feedback processes and emergent field effects produce high volatility. We use two case illustrations from the US healthcare sector to examine how neoclassical and socioecological perspectives contribute to strategizing in hyper environments. Implications for strategic management theory and practice flow from this analysis.
Organization Studies, 2007
We revisit the original meaning of turbulence in the socioecological tradition of organization st... more We revisit the original meaning of turbulence in the socioecological tradition of organization studies and outline a perspective on strategy making grounded in that tradition. This entails a contrast of the socioecological perspective with the more well-known neoclassical perspective on strategy, based on their core decision premises and their different understandings of environmental turbulence. We argue that while some mainstream strategy approaches have taken important strides toward addressing advanced turbulence, many others remain tethered to the neoclassical origins of the strategy discipline and are insufficiently responsive to the new landscape of strategy that now characterizes many industries. This new landscape is construed as the ‘hyper environment’, in which positive feedback processes and emergent field effects produce high volatility. We use two case illustrations from the US healthcare sector to examine how neoclassical and socioecological perspectives contribute to...
There is little argument that organizational change is increasingly important. Turbulent organiza... more There is little argument that organizational change is increasingly important. Turbulent organizational environments, hypercompetition, and related organizational activities demand that organizations manage change effectively (e.g., Ilinitch, D'Aveni, and Lewin, 1996). Organizations must perceive and respond to changes in their environments, independently create new environments, and learn from their experiences. This volume of the JAI series, Research in Organizational Change and Development, takes on these issues in a variety of ways.
The SAGE Handbook of Action Research
European Journal of Workplace Innovation, 2019
Sabanci is a major Turkish holding company. The company built the impressive Sabanci University c... more Sabanci is a major Turkish holding company. The company built the impressive Sabanci University campus, outside Istanbul. Teaching started in 1999. The Library is called the İnformation Centre,The Performance Centre, Student Centre and Sports Centre are very modern. The 50-bedroom Education Development Unit is on the top floor of the Business School. Catering services are excellent.
This Panel Symposium consists of researchers from different parts of the world who will make pres... more This Panel Symposium consists of researchers from different parts of the world who will make presentations discussing the interface between business and public goods and how a better articulation o...
Iktisat Islet Finans, 1992
Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 1996
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