İstanbul Beykent Üniversitesi Kurumsal Akademik Arşivi
DSpace@Beykent, İstanbul Beykent Üniversitesi tarafından doğrudan ve dolaylı olarak yayınlanan; kitap, makale, tez, bildiri, rapor, araştırma verisi gibi tüm akademik kaynakları uluslararası standartlarda dijital ortamda depolar, Üniversitenin akademik performansını izlemeye aracılık eder, kaynakları uzun süreli saklar ve yayınların etkisini artırmak için telif haklarına uygun olarak Açık Erişime sunar.
Güncel Gönderiler
Gender-Diverse Boards and Environmental Accountability in Business
(SAGE Journals, 13.05.2026) Özparlak, Gerçek; Gürol, Burcu
Businesses are increasingly expected to disclose their environmental impacts, set measurable reduction targets, and align their operations with these commitments. Transparent communication of such efforts to stakeholders has become essential in meeting growing societal and regulatory demands. This study investigates the contribution of women on corporate boards to environmental transparency, particularly given the challenges they often face in board participation and strategic decision-making. We analyze the relationship between the proportion of female directors and firms’ environmental scores across four activity groups identified by Kenessey, accounting for the varying environmental impacts of these industries. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to examine how board gender diversity relates to corporate environmental transparency across Kenessey’s four activity groups—an environmentally meaningful taxonomy grounded in differences in natural-resource use and environmental pressure rather than purely economic similarity (e.g., GICS). The results demonstrate a positive and significant association across all activity groups, with stronger effects in sectors characterized by higher environmental impacts. Moreover, the presence of strong governance, social welfare policies, effective oversight, climate commitments, and regulatory frameworks further reinforces this relationship.
Corporate Equality and Information Asymmetry
(SAGE Journals, 18.06.2026) Özparlak, Gerçek
This study documents robust associations between corporate equality policies and information asymmetry in capital markets. Using the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) for 217 U.S. Fortune 1000 firms over 2008 to 2024 (excluding 2023; 3,053 firm-year observations), we examine how CEI is related to three market microstructure proxies of information asymmetry—the quoted bid–ask spread, Amihud illiquidity, and the high–low price spread. Across fixed effects, system GMM, instrumental-variables (2SLS), quantile, and difference-in-differences specifications, higher CEI scores are consistently associated with tighter spreads, improved liquidity, and lower price-based uncertainty. The association is most pronounced in less transparent settings, consistent with the view that inclusivity initiatives may be particularly relevant where information frictions are highest. Overall, the findings align with signaling, stakeholder, and agency-based channels and indicate that inclusive governance investments can be linked to capital-market outcomes alongside social value; however, given endogeneity concerns, we interpret all estimates as conditional associations.
Do CSR Efforts Reduce Environmental Decoupling: Evidence From S&P 500 Firms
(Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 14.04.2026) Gürol, Burcu; Wang, Yan; Özparlak, Gerçek
This study investigates the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) committees and CSR-focused employee training on environmental decoupling. Using panel data of 2489 firm-year observations from S&P 500 firms between 2009 and 2022, we employ fixed-effects models to examine how CSR governance mechanisms influence the alignment between firms' environmental disclosures and their actual environmental performance. Our findings show that firms with CSR committees, as well as those with larger CSR committees, experience significantly lower levels of environmental decoupling. In addition, CSR employee training is associated with a reduction in under-reporting, indicating improved disclosure among firms with relatively strong environmental performance. However, CSR training is also positively related to over-reporting, suggesting that such initiatives may strengthen firms' disclosure practices without necessarily leading to parallel improvements in underlying environmental performance. Taken together, these results highlight the differentiated roles of CSR governance mechanisms in shaping environmental disclosure–performance alignment. While CSR committees appear to support substantive reductions in environmental decoupling, CSR training may operate more strongly through disclosure-oriented channels, underscoring the importance of complementing training initiatives with mechanisms that promote tangible environmental performance improvements.
Reading Layered Industrial Heritage Through Graphic Documentation: Adaptive Reuse, Morphological Continuity, and Selective Legibility at Cibali
(MDPI, 03.06.2026) Heinz, Gamze Kaymak
Adaptive reuse has become a central strategy for extending the cultural, environmental, and functional life of industrial heritage, yet the ways in which intervention logic becomes legible in multilayered heritage complexes remain insufficiently formalized. This article examines the Cibali complex in Istanbul, a former tobacco and cigarette factory reused as a university, cultural, and museum setting, in order to explain how document-based analysis can reconstruct patterns of continuity, loss, re-construction, contemporary addition, and layer articulation. Methodologically, the study develops a multi-scalar reading protocol based on the cross-matching of historical maps, aerial photographs, plans, sections, elevations, restoration proposals, and post-implementation visual material across parcel, block, courtyard, façade, structural-system, and archaeological-layer scales. The findings show that continuity was preserved primarily at the levels of parcel structure, waterfront relation, massing, façade rhythm, and silhouette, whereas more intensive transformation occurred in interior spatial organization, void re-definition, structural re-configuration, and archaeological musealization. The study concludes that adaptive reuse at Cibali operated not as a uniform conservation process, but as a differentiated and selective regime of legibility in which some historical layers were foregrounded while others were transformed, displaced, or made secondary. The significance of the article lies in proposing a case-tested analytical protocol for reading document-rich, multilayered industrial heritage sites, while recognizing that its broader transferability requires further validation through comparative application to additional cases.
Changes in mindful eating and eating behaviors among female university students taking nutrition courses
(Sprınger Nature, 04.05.2026) Can, Başak
University years are a time when eating habits can change because of stress, new routines, and changes in the social environment. This study examined whether a 14-week elective nutrition course could help female university students become more aware of their eating behaviors. A total of 71 students took part in the study: 38 students attended the nutrition course and 33 students did not. Students completed questionnaires before and after the semester. After the course, students who attended the nutrition education program reported higher mindful eating scores and lower scores for emotional, external, and restrained eating. In other words, they appeared to become more aware of hunger and fullness cues and reported fewer eating behaviors driven by emotions, environmental food cues, or restriction. These changes were not observed in the comparison group.The findings suggest that a structured nutrition education course may support healthier and more regulated eating behaviors among female university students. However, this study does not show that nutrition education prevents eating disorders. The results should also be interpreted carefully because the study included only female students from one university, used self-report questionnaires, and did not include long-term follow-up. Future studies with larger and more diverse groups are needed to see whether these changes continue over time.
