Asli M Colpan

Biographic Data

ID5244774
NAMEAsli M Colpan
GIVEN NAMESAsli M
FAMILY NAMEColpan
SIGNATURECOLPAN A M
AFFILIATIONSKyoto University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Continuity and Change in Turkey’s Largest Industrial Enterprises, 1970–2010

    Open AccessAsli M Colpan, Behlül ÜsdikenARTICLEThe Business History Review2025

    Drawing on a newly constructed database, this paper examines for the first time the 100 largest industrial enterprises in Turkey over a period of four decades, from 1970 to 2010. As in several other late-industrializing countries, Turkey transitioned from an autarchic to a liberalized and internationalized economy after the 1980s. Our findings show a marked change in large enterprises from a balanced composition of stand-alone family businesses, …

  • The functions of the HQ unit revisited

    Asli M Colpan, Takashi HikinoARTICLEEntreprises et histoire2019

    Cet article réexamine l’évolution de l’entreprise diversifiée en mettant l’accent sur les changements dans les fonctions de la direction générale. En délimitant les mutations de cette entreprise et celles de son organisation centrale, l’article entend débattre des développements sur le long terme de l’appareil dirigeant de la grande entreprise. Il entreprend une comparaison entre deux types d’entreprises diversifiées : les groupes et les firmes m…

  • The functions of the HQ unit revisited

    Asli M Colpan, Takashi HikinoARTICLEEntreprises et histoire2019

  • Business Groups in the West

    Asli M Colpan, Takashi HikinoEDITORBOOKBusiness Groups in the West2018

    This volume aims to explore the long-term evolution of different varieties of large enterprises in today’s developed economies. It focuses on the economic institution of business groups and attempts to comprehend the factors behind their rise, growth, struggle, and resilience; their behavioral and organizational characteristics; and their roles in national economic development. The volume seeks to enhance the scholarly and policy-oriented underst…

  • Australia

    Ville, Simon Ville et al.BOOKBusiness Groups in the West2018

    Business groups have been limited in number and influence for most of Australia’s modern history. Several entrepreneurs managed a diversified portfolio of interests, and business families often cooperated with one another, but this rarely took the form of a business group. When the Australian economy diversified into manufacturing from its initial narrow resource base, multinational corporations formed a dominant presence. Governments built infra…

  • Business groups, entrepreneurship and the growth of the Koç Group in Turkey

    Asli M Colpan, Geoffrey JonesARTICLEBusiness History2016Cited by: 10References: 14

    This article examines the emergence and development of what became the largest business group in Turkey, the Ko Group. This venture was an important actor in the emergence of modern business enterprise in the new state of the Republic of Turkey from the 1920s. After World War II it diversified rapidly, forming part of a cluster of business groups which dominated the Turkish economy alongside state-owned firms. This article examines how the founde…

  • The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups

    Asli M Colpan, Takashi Hikino et al.EDITORBOOKThe Oxford Handbook Of Business…2010

    PART I: OVERVIEW 4. BUSINESS GROUPS IN PREWAR JAPAN: HISTORICAL FORMATION AND LEGACY GROUP 1: ASIA GROUP 2: LATIN AMERICA GROUP 3: MIDDLE EAST, EASTERN EUROPE, AND AFRICA PART III: ECONOMIC, SOCIO-POLITICAL, AND MANAGERIAL UNDERPINNINGS OF BUSINESS GROUPS

  • Business Groups in Prewar Japan

    Hideaki Miyajima, Asli M Colpan et al.BOOKThe Oxford Handbook Of Business…2010

    This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of business groups around the world. It focuses on the adaptive and competitive capabilities of business groups and their evolutionary dynamics, as well as considering the historical and theoretical contexts of business groups