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Book SynopsisThe main objective of the book is to evaluate the impact of educationprograms targeting women’s reproductive health, initiated and sponsoredby Willows International. The book focuses on Turkey, and thefi eldwork was carried out in Istanbul. The analyses of Turkey’s cultural values and their relation to reproductiveattitudes and behavior are a unique contribution based on thefi ndings of a recent nationwide survey while the chapter on the historicalbackground of Turkey’s family planning policies provides a usefulbackground to interpret the fi ndings from the field. The book will serve as a reference and a useful resource for scholars andpolicymakers interested in family planning and reproductive health inTurkey as well as those with a broader and theoretical perspective.Table of ContentsYılmaz Esmer : Introduction — Yılmaz Esmer : Cultural Values, Reproductive Health and Family Planning: The Turkish Case — Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm : Politics of Family Planning in Turkey: Ideological Polarization and Demographic Policies — Iqbal H. Shah : Studying the Impact of a Community-based Family Planning Intervention in Ghana, Pakistan, Tanzania and Turkey: Strengths and Challenges — Duygu Karadon : Factors Influencing Reproductive Health Decision-Making — Sarah Huber-Krum : Ethnic and Regional Diversity in Family Planning Behaviors — Bahar Ayça Okçuoğlu and Sarah Huber-Krum : Associations between Women’s Empowerment, Conservatism and Contraceptive Trends — Ryoko Sato : Effect of Distance to, and Service Availability of, Health Facilities on Family Planning Use among Urban Turkish Women — Julia Katherine Rohr : Contraceptive Choices and Fertility Preferences .

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Book SynopsisThe Covid-19 pandemic has not only affected the health and life of people around theworld but also many areas such as the economy, the way of doing business, workinglife, the education sector, the urban life, and consumer consumption habits. Digitaltechnologies and solutions also played an important role in the changes brought aboutby the pandemic. Digitization has brought its own challenges in this context. Beingaware of this issue, Turkish-German University (TGU) hosted a conference on “DigitalChallenges and Strategies in a Post-Pandemic World” in cooperation with BielefeldUniversity of Applied Sciences in Istanbul. The conference offered a platform for academiciansas well as practitioners to discuss the current issues related to new digitalapplications, the impact of digitization, digital challenges, and necessary measures, aswell as strategies to overcome these challenges in a post-pandemic world. The academicpapers presented in the conference constitute the chapters of this book.Table of ContentsEla Sibel Bayrak Meydanoğlu, Margareta Teodorescu, Müge Klein : The Impact of Blockchain on the Marketing Mix Elements: A Literature Review — Işıl Ketan, Alexander Dreyer, Dilek Zamantılı Nayır : Video-on-Demand Platforms: A Preliminary Study on Preferences and Prospective Binge Behaviour — İlke Kocamaz, Bilal Dede : Digital Marketing Trends during the Covid 19 Outbreak: Entrepreneurship Perspectives and Turkish SME Cases from the Young Businessmen Association of Turkey (TUGIAD) as Evidence from an Emerging Economy — Elif Ceren Yıldız, Taşkın Dirşehan : Blockchain Technology as a Solution to the Bullwhip Effect — Mehmet Ali Taş, Batin Latif Aylak, Damla Durak Uşar : Investigating the Effects of Digital Challenges and Strategies in Post-Pandemic Era on Supply Chain Management — Ahmet Tuğrul Tuğer : Understanding Artificial Intelligence in Service during the Post Pandemic Period — Müge Klein, Sevgin Batuk Ünlü, Selin Karaca Varinlioğlu, Merve Ahter Dede : Factors Affecting Work-Family Conflict in the Digital Work Environment — Alev Özer Torgalöz, Pınar Yozgatlı Özbilen, Deniz Mat Artun : Family-Work Conflict and Job Performance during Remote Working: Does Technostress Mediate this Relationship? — Çiğdem Vatansever, Meltem Sezer Özata, Ayça Ünsever : Transformation of Home into Workspace for Women during Covid-19 Pandemic: Expression of Work and Non-work Life Balance on Social Media — Ulrich Tamm, Rainer Lenz : Significance of the Governance of Blockchain Systems — Hüseyin Hayri Nuroğlu : Digital Challenges in the Governance of Business Networks in the Post-Pandemic Era — Seyfullah Selimefendigil, Hakan Güzeloğlu, Çiydem Çatak : Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology: Investigating the Relationship between Bitcoin and Financial Markets — Mehmet Hakan Özdemir, Tolga Tuzcuoğlu, Erencan Yavrucu : The Asset Allocation Preferences of Mutual Fund Managers in the Pre-Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Periods — Kersten Kellermann : Mind the Gap: Why Germany Should Invest More in its Future — Elif Posos Devrani : Digitalizing Family: Digital Parenting during the Covid-19 Pandemic — Sven Packmohr, Henning Brink : Research-based Learning during a Pandemic – Findings from a Course on Business Informatics Conducting Research on Barriers to Digital Transformation — Axel Benning, Abdulmuttalip Erduran : Legal Challenges due to the Pandemic Impacts .

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Book SynopsisIn our world, where information and communication technologies are reshaping and continuing to shape every field, it is clear that enterprises that can follow the flow of information, grind the information they collect in information mills, and provide intelligence by using their internal and external information, can adapt to changing conditions in a timely and effective manner in proportion to its power. At this point, the aim is to automate the realization of this whole process to the greatest possible extent. In this context, the important developments in the last 20 years have been focusing on business intelligence, big data, deep learning, reinforcement learning, data intelligence, decision intelligence, automated decision-making, and other concepts and the development of application tools. From this point of view, under the title of “Data-driven decisions in enterprises – implications for business education and cases,” papers collected from various universities worldwide are included in this conference proceedings.Table of ContentsData driven decisions in enterprises – implications for business cases, Data Driven Business at Miele – An implementation case in the manufacturing industry, Process Mining as a tool for corporate value production, A cross-sector comparative analysis of a multidimensional framework of value creation through big data, Data-driven security, AI enabled "Just walkout technlology" in shopping malls: empirical evidence to predict consumer purchase intention with moderating role of shopping convenience, Business Valuation Methods in Europe - Similarities and Differences. Applying situated visualization for supporting consumer decision making, Resource based theory: insights in a managerial point of view, Data reports with dynamic documents: using R, Makdown, RStudio, Shiny, , Analysis of an SME company using the Altman Z-Score model, A constructive learning model for digital skills in treasury, Using researched-based learning on barriers to digital transformation to impact student engagement during a pandemic, Teaching Business students to code – thoughts on Why and How

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