This study investigates the criteria affecting the location of humanitarian logistics distribution centers in the Sakarya province of Turkey, an area prone to natural disasters. The study identifies potential distribution center locations and uses the Best-Worst Method (BWM) to determine criteria such as population, distance to major highways and airports, public transportation availability, natural disaster risk, and suitable infrastructure. BWM is used to assign weights to each criterion and rank them based on their importance. The Additive Ratio Assessment (ARAS) method is then used to evaluate potential distribution center locations based on the established criteria. Disaster management experts and academicians provide their opinions through an online and face-to-face survey. Based on the results, Adapazarı is identified as the most suitable district for a humanitarian logistics distribution center. The study highlights the importance of considering multiple criteria when selecting distribution center locations and provides a framework for using multi-criteria decision-making methods in logistics planning. Disaster managers and policymakers can use the results to make informed decisions about the location of humanitarian logistics distribution centers.

This research explores the relationships between the dark triad, motivational dynamics, and entrepreneurial intentions, as well as the moderating effect of the country on these relationships. Using a cross-sectional design, the study utilizes a sample of 701 new entrepreneurs from Turkey (n = 368) and Kosovo (n = 333). The findings indicate that narcissism positively influences entrepreneurial intentions. Additionally, psychopathy and Machiavellianism negatively impact motivational dynamics, while narcissism has a positive effect. Furthermore, the positive effects of motivational dynamics on entrepreneurial intentions have been confirmed. Mediation analysis reveals that individual motivations partially mediate the relationship between the dark triad and entrepreneurial intentions. Finally, the research results show that the country plays a moderating role in the relationships between narcissism and entrepreneurial intentions, personal attitudes and entrepreneurial intentions, psychopathy, and perceived behavioral control, and the need for achievement and narcissism with personal attitudes. Our study provides theoretical contributions as well as policy and managerial implications in the emerging field of entrepreneurship.

The role of businesses in sustainable development gained increasingly more importance, together with the increasing speed of technological advancements, in addition to the economic effects of climate change, pandemics, disasters, and wars. The capabilities of businesses allowing them to adapt to environmental conditions to use their resources and turn them into productive outputs efficiently are considered critical factors in achieving sustainable competitive advantage. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the effects of businesses’ marketing, process, organisational, and product innovation capabilities on corporate sustainability. The data used in the present study, which has an explanatory research design, were collected from managers of 452 SMEs in an emerging economy (Turkey) using the non-random quota sampling method. During the data collection, a survey was carried out on the manufacturing firms operating in Kocaeli, Sakarya, Düzce, Yalova, and Bolu provinces in a region called TR42 in the Eastern Marmara region, which is an important industrial region in Turkey. During the data analysis, SPSS was used to obtain the descriptive statistics, and AMOS to obtain the inferential statistics. Within this context, covariance-based Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was utilised to test organisational sustainability’s causal relationships with variables constituting the innovation capabilities. The results achieved here suggest that marketing, process, corporate, and product innovation capabilities have an effect that increases organisational sustainability. Furthermore, the results indicate that marketing innovation capability had a higher impact on organisational sustainability than other capacities constituting the innovation capability. The present study offers important interpretations and conclusions for businesses which operate in an emerging economy at the level of SME to improve their sustainability objectives in terms of resource, capability, and environmental adaptation.

Amaç–Bu araştırmanın amacı; Z Kuşağının dijital teknolojiye yönelik tutumunun bireysel inovasyon yetkinlikleri üzerine olan etkisinin belirlenmesidir.Yöntem–Araştırma nicel araştırma yöntemi ile tasarlanmıştır. Verilerin toplanması için anket tekniğinden faydalanılmıştır. Araştırmanın evrenini Sakarya Uygulamalı Bilimler Üniversitesi’nde (SUBU) eğitim gören tüm lisans öğrencileri oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmada kolayda örnekleme yönteminden faydalanılmıştır. Araştırma için oluşturulan anket online olarak tüm SUBU lisans öğrencilerine gönderilmiştir. Bu yolla 437 adet anket toplanmıştır. Bunlar arasından 20 tanesi eksik veri içerdiğinden değerlendirme dışı bırakılmıştır. Analizler 417 adet anket üzerinden gerçekleştirilmiştir.Bulgular–Yapılan araştırma sonucunda; Z Kuşağının dijital teknolojiye yönelik tutumunun, bireysel inovasyon yetkinlikleri üzerinde β=0,744; p<0,05 düzeyinde bir etkiye sahip olduğu bulunmuştur. Tartışma–Bu çalışma dijital teknolojiye yönelik tutumu Z kuşağının bireysel inovasyon yetkinlikleri açısından ele alan öncü çalışmalar arasındadır. Araştırmadan elde edilen bulgular, örneklem grubu ve anket formundaki ifadeler ile sınırlıdır.