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Associate Professor of Organization Studies at Izmir Bakircay University in Turkey. 

I work on organization studies and organizational institutionalism. I'm interested in the role of organizations in the reproduction of societal inequalities, particularly organizational structures of disadvantage in the Syrian refugee crisis. 

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Education

2019-2020

University of Edinburgh 

Business School 

Postdoctoral visiting researcher

Advisor- Prof John Amis 

2012-2017

Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University 

PhD in Management and Organization Studies 

Dissertation: At the Nexus of Institutional Logics and Political Networks: The Case of Academic Hiring in Newly Founded Management Departments in Turkey

2015-2016

University of Alberta

Strategic Management & Organization

Visiting PhD researcher

Advisor: Prof Michael Lounsbury

2010-2011

MA

London School of Economics & Political Science

Public Policy & Administration 

(Research track)

Merit degree

2008-2011

MBA

Middle East Technical University 

Dissertation:  Workplace Bullying: Its Reflection upon Organizational Justice and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour Perceptions among Public Sector Employees

2004-2008

BA

Middle East Technical University 

Political Science and Public Administration 

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