Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives Proceedings of the 33rd Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference

This book presents selected papers from the 33rd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, virtually held in Madrid (Spain) due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The theoretical and empirical papers gathered here cover diverse areas of business, economics and finance in various geographic regions, including not only topics from HR, management, finance, marketing but also contributions on public economics, political economy and regional studies.

Part 1: Eurasian Business Perspectives: Human Resources Management.- A Qualitative Study of Factors Influencing Employee Ecological Behavior 0f Academics in Higher Education.- Leadership in Various Project Management Methodologies.- Part 2: Eurasian Business Perspectives: Management.- Impact Analysis of Unified Communications 0n Managers' Verbal Communication And Organizational Form.- Overcoming the Traps in The Adaptive Cycle of Resilience Model.- Diagnostic instrument: How to Measure Values Congruence And Management Culture?.- The Possibilities of The Optimization 0f Managing Organizations Of Education Sector.- The Factors That Promote Business Growth Opportunities for SMES in Latvia In Wholesale And Retail Trade Sector.- Part 3: Eurasian Business Perspectives: Marketing.- Celebrity Brand Extensions: Go Or No Go?.- Determining the Impacts of Online Customer Reviews on International Students’ Online Hostel Booking Intentions: A Preliminary Study.- Motivation Towards Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicles to Reduce Transport Carbon Emission In Malaysia: A Conceptual Paper.- Religion in Consumer Behavior Research: A Systematic Literature Review.- Linking Banking Service Quality to Customer Loyalty:  Two Levels Perspective.- Part 4. Eurasian Economic Perspectives: Finance.- Indebtedness of North African Firms: Do Family Ownership and Board Attributes Matter?.- Wealth Management in Bulgaria and Implications of Risk Profile and Taxation on Wealth Allocation.- Heuristic Behavior as Mediating Effect of Neurofinance and Entrepreneur's Financial Decision-Making: Evidence of Pretest-Posttest Experiment.- Part 5: Eurasian Economic Perspectives: Regional Studies.- Social Economy Sustainability at a Regional Level. The case of the western macedonia region in Greece.- Structural Convergence with Eurozone and Institutional Quality In Bulgaria.- The Latin Monetary Union, the Treaty of 1885 and the Liquidation Clause: The Difficulty to Leave a Monetary Union.- Italian Smart Working: An Innovative Approach to Improve Productivity in Public Administration.- CSR And Turkish Universities in ARWU 2018: An Evaluation of the Strategic Plans and Performance Reports.         

Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin is a Professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University (Turkey). He has also held visiting faculty positions at Indiana University in Indianapolis (USA), Jacksonville University (USA), Zagreb University (Croatia), and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Prof. Bilgin has published many articles in reputable international journals and is the Associate Editor of the Eurasian Economic Review (Springer). He is the founder and current Chairman of the Istanbul Economic Research Association, and the founder and current Vice President of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES, Turkey). He has also been active as a consultant to several institutions, as a newspaper columnist, and featured in several television programs.

Hakan Danis is the Vice President of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) and Director in the Credit Strategies Group at the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) (USA). He has previously worked at the Spanish multinational global bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) in the USA as economist. He is one of the founders and first President of the EBES. He has published articles in many leading economics and finance journals and currently serves as the Managing Editor of Eurasian Economic Review (Springer). He served as the guest editor at the Emerging Markets Finance & Trade and Singapore Economic Review, and has published several academic books. His current research and teaching interests include monetary policy, nonlinear applied time series, risk management in financial institutions, and macroeconomics. 

Ender Demir is an Associate Professor of Finance at School of Social Sciences Reykjavik University, Iceland. Dr. Demir is the founder and conference coordinator of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES). He serves as the Associate Editor of the Eurasian Business Review (Springer), and as a Subject Editor of the Journal of Multinational Financial Management. He has published his research in peer-reviewed international journals such as the Annals of Tourism Research, Emerging Markets Review, Finance Research Letters, and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. His research interests are in corporate finance, cryptocurrencies, financial economics, and tourism economics.

Gokhan Karabulut graduated from Istanbul University (Turkey) in 1995 and worked at the Istanbul University as Research Assistant (1995-2002), Assistant Professor (2002-2008) and  Associate Professor (2008-2012). He became Full Professor in 2012. He also holds visiting faculty positions at University of New Orleans, Department of Economics (USA) and State University of New York (SUNY) in Albany, Department of Psychology (USA). Professor Karabulut has published in international academic journals and presented research papers at international conferences. He has also published several academic books. He is member of several academic institutions as board member and fellow. His research interests are behavioral economics and macroeconomics.