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Item The link between organizational agility and leadership: A research in science parks(Allied Business Academies, 2020) Akkaya B.; Tabak A.This research aims at exploring the relationship between organizational agility and leadership. Data was collected by two surveys and interviews from randomly selected managers in science parks in the West of Turkey. The Sequential Explanatory, a kind of Mixed Method was used to analyse the data. Structural Equation Modeling-SEM and Content analysis were carried out. According to quantitative and qualitative analysis results, transactional and transformational affect organizational agility, but laissez-faire leadership has not any relation with organizational agility. © 2020, Allied Business Academies.Item Entrepreneurial University Concept Review from the Perspective of Academicians: A Mixed Method Research Analysis(MDPI, 2022) Coşkun H.E.; Popescu C.; Şahin Samaraz D.; Tabak A.; Akkaya B.Understanding the role of the factors that contribute to the development and growth of entrepreneurial universities is important for both the university itself and the global economy as a whole. Therefore, this study aimed to gain a deep understanding of the entrepreneurial university. The study was designed with a mixed-method approach in which quantitative and qualitative methods were used together. In the quantitative part of the mixed-method research, a systematic literature review of the entrepreneurial university concept was done and based on the results of the literature search obtained by quantitative methods, general concepts and categories and their relations with the contexts were revealed. In the qualitative part of the mixed-method research, in order to explain the entrepreneurial university understanding, semi-structured interviews were conducted with academicians in universities. According to the findings, it was found that conceptualization was very important to understand the entrepreneurial university. The university was considered as an institution that serves students and companies via some channels, such as research reports, an academic publication, or a patent received at the end of a project. As the entrepreneurial university paradigm is being studied by various institutions in the world, this study contributes to the literature both as a theoretical study and as a study that reveal the concepts of the entrepreneurial university. By providing a conceptual framework, the research will contribute to the literature as a theoretical study by aiming to explain the service systems (universities, government, firms) based on the exchange of skills and the creation of common value in the knowledge-based society on the entrepreneurial university paradigm, which is extremely popular in the world. Fındings from the systematic literature review and interviews with academicians were analysed comparatively, and a conceptual framework that evaluates the concepts and variables of the entrepreneurial university with a holistic view is presented. © 2022 by the authors.Item Leader robots (LRs): The future managers of digital organizations(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2022) Akkaya B.; Tabak A.This chapter aims to present the idea of leader robots (LRs) and proposes how LRs can step in to fill various manager positions. LRs are the robots that lead robots. Robotics engineers have already produced many robots for various applications such as in manufacturing, marketing, accounting even human resources in business management. We have witnessed many significant advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence research to achieve digital transformation. There are robots for various purposes of providing digital transformation toward Industry 5.0. Some post-modern organizations have already had robot employees and artificial intelligence applications. There are many studies on human-robot collaboration, robot development, and robot employee but limited research on LR. In this study, therefore, it is discussed the possibility of LRs that may be a key concept of Industry 5.0 in perspective digital transformation. Therefore, it is believed that this study will be one of the focuses of many upcoming organizational robotics research studies. © 2022 by Bulent Akkaya and Akif Tabak. All rights reserved.Item Item Two Faces of Digital Transformation: Technological Opportunities versus Social Threats(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2023) Akkaya B.; Tabak A.Focusing on so-far unresolved questions about this new horizon of modernity, Two Faces of Digital Transformation provides insights into technological advancements with business administrative applications and examines forthcoming implementation strategies from a range of perspectives. © 2023 Bülent Akkaya and Akif Tabak. Individual chapters. © 2023 The authors. All rights reserved.