The Turkish wine industry presents an interesting case to explore firm behaviour, institutions an... more The Turkish wine industry presents an interesting case to explore firm behaviour, institutions and regional economic resilience. With political Islam gaining popularity over the past two decades, the local industry has faced many challenges at the policy level. These include an enormous tax burden, bans on alcohol advertising, promotion and sponsorship, and the prohibition on online sales of alcoholic products. Under these conditions, many producers do not have the necessary skills to manoeuvre institutional challenges therefore economic survival mainly depends on local agents' own capabilities. Understanding the resilience of an industry as such calls for an institutionally nuanced and agent-centric micro-level focus. In this context, the paper seeks to establish a theoretical framework that facilitates an explanation of how agents' inherent systematic anomalies, biases and spatio-temporal cognitive limitations restrict their resilience and the twin notions of myopia and hypermetropia serve as the basis for our argument. The producer firms of the Thrace wine-making cluster in the northwest corner of Türkiye constitute our empirical focus. Our findings illustrate that the impact of adverse sectoral policies on local firms are heterogeneous and that there exists at least three types of winemaking firms in Türkiye depending on their agendas and cognitive (dis)abilities.
Stickiness and slipperiness are two extreme socio-economic and institutional conditions under whi... more Stickiness and slipperiness are two extreme socio-economic and institutional conditions under which industrial clusters operate. In much of the economic geography literature, these conditions have been investigated separately. This article challenges this conventional view by developing an alternative framework that utilises some of the basic concepts and approaches of evolutionary thinking and dialectic understanding of agglomeration. With the evidence from Istanbul’s old city jewellery cluster, we argue that stickiness and slipperiness are inextricably tied together and the spatial configuration of clusters is the result of a complicated balance between these two. In Istanbul, these twin conditions are complementary and interact allowing the possibility to transform each other. In the course of cluster evolution, the interactions of the opposite trends result in the emergence of new actions, networks and contexts.
ABSTRACT Cultural industries are regarded among the key sectors for economic development. With it... more ABSTRACT Cultural industries are regarded among the key sectors for economic development. With its historic heritage, cultural diversity, and urban vitality, Istanbul has significant potential upon which creativity and cultural industries could flourish. This paper examines the current structure of three cultural industries in Istanbul from a spatial perspective. These sectors are arts and culture festivals, the film industry, and the fashion design industry. The results show that these three sectors are spatially clustered in the city, in an area we call the ‘cultural triangle’. This area provides the opportunity of experiencing different types of cultural facilities and activities, accommodates a density of social networks and interactions, and offers an abundance of historic buildings that constitute a unique and attractive urban core. Furthermore it is where Istanbul's ‘critical mass’ is present. The rest of the metropolitan area beyond the cultural triangle, however, is a highly impoverished landscape in regard to creativity and culture. Some suggestions are made of how spatial planning policy can overcome this discrepancy between the centre and the periphery.
... strategy has led to some important changes in the spatial pattern of Tofas's supply chai... more ... strategy has led to some important changes in the spatial pattern of Tofas's supply chain. It seems that the SDP has targeted specific groups of suppliers in different locations. Figure 3 shows the distribution of Tofas's exit suppliers in 1999. According to the diagram, Bursa was ...
... Şekil 1. Çalışma alanı ve alt bölgeler [15. ISoCaRP Genç Profesyonel Plancılar Çalıştayı için... more ... Şekil 1. Çalışma alanı ve alt bölgeler [15. ISoCaRP Genç Profesyonel Plancılar Çalıştayı için Ebru Seçkin ve Tuba İnal Çekiç tarafından üretilmiştir.] ... ISoCaRP Genç Profesyonel Plancılar Çalıştayı için Ebru Seçkin ve Tuba İnal Çekiç tarafından üretilmiştir.] ...
... Betül ŞENGEZER,1 Yiğit EVREN,1 Ayşe Nur ÖKTEN,1 Senem KOZAMAN SOM1 ... Bu kavramlar, gerçek g... more ... Betül ŞENGEZER,1 Yiğit EVREN,1 Ayşe Nur ÖKTEN,1 Senem KOZAMAN SOM1 ... Bu kavramlar, gerçek güç ilişkile-rinin mekâna yansıtılmasını kamuoyunda meşrulaştıran araç- lar haline gelmekte, fetişleşerek adeta birer uygulamacı zır-ha dönüşmektedir. ...
Abstract Competitive cities, quality of urban life, sustainability, participatory planning, gover... more Abstract Competitive cities, quality of urban life, sustainability, participatory planning, governance, and other such concepts comprise an important part of the popular planning discourse in Turkey. Since the Habitat II Summit in Istanbul in 1996, in particular, we have ...
The Turkish wine industry presents an interesting case to explore firm behaviour, institutions an... more The Turkish wine industry presents an interesting case to explore firm behaviour, institutions and regional economic resilience. With political Islam gaining popularity over the past two decades, the local industry has faced many challenges at the policy level. These include an enormous tax burden, bans on alcohol advertising, promotion and sponsorship, and the prohibition on online sales of alcoholic products. Under these conditions, many producers do not have the necessary skills to manoeuvre institutional challenges therefore economic survival mainly depends on local agents' own capabilities. Understanding the resilience of an industry as such calls for an institutionally nuanced and agent-centric micro-level focus. In this context, the paper seeks to establish a theoretical framework that facilitates an explanation of how agents' inherent systematic anomalies, biases and spatio-temporal cognitive limitations restrict their resilience and the twin notions of myopia and hypermetropia serve as the basis for our argument. The producer firms of the Thrace wine-making cluster in the northwest corner of Türkiye constitute our empirical focus. Our findings illustrate that the impact of adverse sectoral policies on local firms are heterogeneous and that there exists at least three types of winemaking firms in Türkiye depending on their agendas and cognitive (dis)abilities.
Stickiness and slipperiness are two extreme socio-economic and institutional conditions under whi... more Stickiness and slipperiness are two extreme socio-economic and institutional conditions under which industrial clusters operate. In much of the economic geography literature, these conditions have been investigated separately. This article challenges this conventional view by developing an alternative framework that utilises some of the basic concepts and approaches of evolutionary thinking and dialectic understanding of agglomeration. With the evidence from Istanbul’s old city jewellery cluster, we argue that stickiness and slipperiness are inextricably tied together and the spatial configuration of clusters is the result of a complicated balance between these two. In Istanbul, these twin conditions are complementary and interact allowing the possibility to transform each other. In the course of cluster evolution, the interactions of the opposite trends result in the emergence of new actions, networks and contexts.
ABSTRACT Cultural industries are regarded among the key sectors for economic development. With it... more ABSTRACT Cultural industries are regarded among the key sectors for economic development. With its historic heritage, cultural diversity, and urban vitality, Istanbul has significant potential upon which creativity and cultural industries could flourish. This paper examines the current structure of three cultural industries in Istanbul from a spatial perspective. These sectors are arts and culture festivals, the film industry, and the fashion design industry. The results show that these three sectors are spatially clustered in the city, in an area we call the ‘cultural triangle’. This area provides the opportunity of experiencing different types of cultural facilities and activities, accommodates a density of social networks and interactions, and offers an abundance of historic buildings that constitute a unique and attractive urban core. Furthermore it is where Istanbul's ‘critical mass’ is present. The rest of the metropolitan area beyond the cultural triangle, however, is a highly impoverished landscape in regard to creativity and culture. Some suggestions are made of how spatial planning policy can overcome this discrepancy between the centre and the periphery.
... strategy has led to some important changes in the spatial pattern of Tofas's supply chai... more ... strategy has led to some important changes in the spatial pattern of Tofas's supply chain. It seems that the SDP has targeted specific groups of suppliers in different locations. Figure 3 shows the distribution of Tofas's exit suppliers in 1999. According to the diagram, Bursa was ...
... Şekil 1. Çalışma alanı ve alt bölgeler [15. ISoCaRP Genç Profesyonel Plancılar Çalıştayı için... more ... Şekil 1. Çalışma alanı ve alt bölgeler [15. ISoCaRP Genç Profesyonel Plancılar Çalıştayı için Ebru Seçkin ve Tuba İnal Çekiç tarafından üretilmiştir.] ... ISoCaRP Genç Profesyonel Plancılar Çalıştayı için Ebru Seçkin ve Tuba İnal Çekiç tarafından üretilmiştir.] ...
... Betül ŞENGEZER,1 Yiğit EVREN,1 Ayşe Nur ÖKTEN,1 Senem KOZAMAN SOM1 ... Bu kavramlar, gerçek g... more ... Betül ŞENGEZER,1 Yiğit EVREN,1 Ayşe Nur ÖKTEN,1 Senem KOZAMAN SOM1 ... Bu kavramlar, gerçek güç ilişkile-rinin mekâna yansıtılmasını kamuoyunda meşrulaştıran araç- lar haline gelmekte, fetişleşerek adeta birer uygulamacı zır-ha dönüşmektedir. ...
Abstract Competitive cities, quality of urban life, sustainability, participatory planning, gover... more Abstract Competitive cities, quality of urban life, sustainability, participatory planning, governance, and other such concepts comprise an important part of the popular planning discourse in Turkey. Since the Habitat II Summit in Istanbul in 1996, in particular, we have ...
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