Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives

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. Among other several editorial duties, he serves as the Subject Editor in Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money and as the Associate Editor in Singapore Economic Review. 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 EconomicsSociety (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 the Department of Business Administration, 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 economicsVirginia Bodolica is the Said T. Khoury Chair of Leadership Studies and a Professor of Management in the School of Business Administration at the American University of Sharjah (UAE). She is a passionate academic, an advocate of cross-disciplinary research and practice, and an award-winning case studies’ writer. Her research interests are related to corporate leadership dynamics and soft and hard governance issues in for-profit settings, family owned enterprises and healthcare institutions. Among other journals, Virginia serves on the editorial board of a number of academic journals, consults with local and international businesses, facilitates strategic retreats and delivers executive education sessions and customized programs, and is regularly invited as a guest speaker at professional conferences, workshops and events. Her involvement in service activities has earned her many Outstanding Reviewer Awards from scholarly journals and various Academy of Management’s divisions.

• Part 1. Eurasian Business Perspectives: Education.- Chapter 1. Understanding Student Learning Gain: Using Student-staff Partnerships Within Higher Education to Inform the Continuous Improvement Process.- Chapter 2. The Role of Technology in Student Learning and Engagement: The Case of the Webinar.- Chapter 3. Investigation of Higher Education Teacher Adoption of Microsoft Teams: Managing Behaviour Through Online Delivery and Promoting Positive Usage.- Part 2. Eurasian Business Perspectives: Entrepreneurship.- Chapter 4. Driving Economic Growth: Examining the Role of Leadership Within SME Innovation.- Chapter 5. It’s Not Just Physical: Gender and Bias in Equity Crowdfunding.- Part 3. Eurasian Business Perspectives: Management.- Chapter 6. Development of Organizational Trust Questionnaire.- Chapter 7. Specific Factors Influencing Patient Satisfaction in Swiss Ophthalmology Private Practice.- Part 4. Eurasian Business Perspectives: Tourism.- Chapter 8. An Evaluation of Green CertificationProgram: A Study of Two Island Resorts in Malaysia and Indonesia.- Chapter 9. The Impact of Employees' absorptive Capacity on Digital Transformation of Tourism and Travel Services: Evidience from the Egyptiant Travel Agencies.- Part 5. Eurasian Economic Perspectives: Accounting & Finance.- Chapter 10. Use of Management Accounting Techniques in Croatian Manufacturing Companies.- Chapter 11. Intellectual Capital and Corporate Risk Disclosure in the Nigerian Banking Sector.- Chapter 12. Bibliometric Analysis of Green Bonds.- Chapter 13. Basel III and Firm Performance: A Lens of Managerial Ownership.- Part 6. Eurasian Economic Perspectives: Growth & Development.- Chapter 14. Research Trends in the Field of Islamic Social Finance.- Chapter 15. Return Migration as a Driver of Regional Development: A Case of North-east Estonia.- Chapter 16. Financing Sustainable Economic Growth: Evidence from Europe.- Part 7. Eurasian Economic Perspectives: Regional Studies.- Chapter 17. A Comparative Analysis on the Bureaucratic Process in Establishing Health Cooperatives: The Cases of Turkey and the United Kingdom.- Chapter 18. Structural Analysis of the Cultural - Creative Industries of Romanian Creative Cities.