Emel Aksoy

This bibliometric study examines the evolution of scholarly research on fashion and gender over a thirty-year period, with the aim of identifying key trends, intellectual structures, and emerging research hotspots in the field. Accordingly, 1,940 documents on fashion and gender were indexed in the Web of Science database between 1990 and 2022 were analyzed. Network visualization and in-depth bibliometric analyses were conducted using the CiteSpace software. The results indicate that the USA, the UK, Canada, and Australia are not only the most prolific contributors to the literature but also serve as central hubs connecting other countries engaged in fashion and gender research. The most highly cited journals include Journal of Consumer Research, Fashion Theory, Sex Roles, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, highlighting the interdisciplinary character of the field, which spans fashion studies, consumer research, social psychology, business, marketing, and management. Citation burst analysis reveals that authors such as D. Crane, R. Lewis, and B. Barry have recently gained increased scholarly attention. Furthermore, keyword burst analysis demonstrates a clear shift in research focus toward themes such as social media, politics, and antecedents, reflecting broader sociocultural and technological transformations. Overall, the findings provide valuable insights for researchers by illustrating how fashion, gender, sustainability, and social media are increasingly interconnected, and how these intersections contribute to ongoing debates on inclusion and diversity within the fashion industry.

The study aims to contribute to tourism literature and the Norwegian hospitality industry by integrating and mapping guests’ green hotel experiences. Hence, the study deploys mix-methods to aid in depicting guest preferences and perspectives on Norwegian green hotels. Accordingly, these experiences are represented with 1575 guests’ venue-specific generated contents (UGC) found within designated hotel pages of TripAdvisor. Scholars conducted descriptive analysis on guest ratings, machine-learning integrated content analysis to map harmonious and divergent qualities of venue-specific green hotel experiences, and explored users’ community profiles to enrich and reveal further similarities with guest demographics. Consequentially, the study unveiled key themes and concepts relevant to guests’ satisfaction with nine Norwegian green hotels and attributed qualities. Accordingly, the study revealed ten key themes, namely “hotel”, “room”, “food”, “location”, “staff”, “stay”, “service”, “recommend”, “value”, and “experience”. To exemplify, the majority of guests were found to be satisfied with their attributed qualities. Regarding hotel themes, guests were dissatisfied with green practices, booking, check-in, and other aspects of attribution. To contribute, the study offers valuable insights for practitioners and provides theoretical implications. Green hoteliers of Norway should firmly grasp green practices, as improvements and diversification strategies with green practices must be present for both online and embodiments of their venues. In an ever-evolving world of digital presence, practitioners must sustain relevance with UGC content encompassing guest experiences.

The purpose of this study is to provide a theoretical framework that demonstrates how psychological capital (PsyCap) can simultaneously mediate the effects of servant leadership (ServL) and authentic leadership (AuthL) on employee engagement in the workplace. This study examines whether AuthL better explains PsyCap and workplace engagement from the perspective of Generation Z (Gen Z) than ServL, although recent research shows that ServL and AuthL correlate well with Generations X and Y, respectively. In addition, there is limited research on the above aspects in the hospitality industry. These studies either have a very limited sample, contradictory results in their own context, or contradictory results in the same industry regarding the above relationships. This study will attempt to shed light on these contradictory findings. The researchers surveyed 393 members of Gen Z working in the hospitality business in one of Russia’s most popular destinations, Krasnodar. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling, bootstrap analysis and descriptive statistics. Although both leadership styles have a positive impact on PsyCap and work engagement (WorkE) of Gen Z employees, AuthL has a greater impact on PsyCap and work engagement than ServL, according to the results. PsyCap was found to mediate the relationship between the two leadership styles and frontline Gen Z employees, and the study also found that it influenced overall Gen Z performance. The influence of PsyCap on the job engagement of Gen Z employees in the Russian hospitality industry is examined.

It is aimed to make out how the media that reshapes the societies with the discourses affects the construction of Turkish identity that is influenced by the Turkish origin scientists’ worldwide success about coronavirus pandemic. By studying the news and images, it is purposed to analyze whether the otherization of Turkey that is generally established with different kinds of many bad images, expressions from past to now is still keeping alive with all the images, discourses, expressions in the media. It is aimed to analyze if there is a different point of view in Germany with successful Turkish origin scientists who are being hope for all the world in the process of coronavirus pandemic. The aim of this study is to demonstrate how Turkey is described after the contribution of the Turkish origin scientists to the world about coronavirus, by examinig the news about Turkey in Der Spiegel International (Germany) throughout four months (October, November, December in 2020 and January in 2021) with using the discourse analysis method.

In the new world order that has begun to be restructured, how national identities will be carried out together and how differences will be transformed into benefits, instead of problems has become a very important issue in terms of ensuring peace and prosperity in every society. The USA realized that they could no longer pursue the understanding of Americanism, based on a single American identity, which they aim to protect. America, where many different cultures live, has inevitably had to follow a policy that respects every culture and is based on cultural pluralism. In contrast to cultural diversity in the USA, it is possible to point out that racism, which did not stop under Obama, was endured with Trump’s presidential process among the different positions of low-income black and minority societies. In this study, the question of whether new president of USA, Joe Biden is going to attempt to vary the otherization policy for the minority societies and immigrants that was continued in the process of Trump, or not is aimed to be made out, by analyzing the news about the minority societies and immigrants in CNN (USA) throughout two months, December, 2020 and January, 2021 with the discourse analysis method.