BAŞAK TOPALER

Associate Professor
 BAŞAK TOPALER

A BLOK 2. KAT 243

+90 (212) 533 65 32 / 1627

[email protected]

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Education

Doctorate

Sabancı University
PhD in Management

Master's Degree

Koç University
Industrial Engineering

Bachelor's Degree

Yıldız Technical University
Industrial Engineering

Research Areas

  • Organizational Status
  • Organizational Identity
  • Organization Theory
  • Strategic Management

Work Experience

2016 / Continuing İşletme Bölümü, Dr. Öğretim Üyesi
Kadir Has Üniversitesi

2008 / 2012 Researcher
TÜBİTAK TÜSSİDE

2012 / 2016 Research Assistant
Sabancı University

Publications

  • "Signaling shaped by the context: Early-stage funding in the Turkish startup ecosystem",
    Topaler, Başak; Khan, Hamza; , Management and Marketing, (2025) Vol.20, No.3, 65-77 DOI: 10.2478/mmcks-2025-0012
  • "Universities between revenue and status: A typology of organizational responses",
    Topaler, Başak; Kayabaşı, Akın; , European Management Review, (2025) Vol.22, No.1, 38-52 DOI: 10.1111/emre.12612
  • "Internationalization at the semi periphery: Alternative forms of practice and the determinants of adoption"
    , Topaler, Başak; , The Internationalization of Higher Education: Concepts, Cases, and Challenges, Contemporary Issues in Higher Education, , Information Age Publishing (IAP) (2023)
  • "Shared Identity Schemas Shape Incumbent Responses to New Entrants",
    Koçak, Özgecan; Topaler, Başak; , Strategy Science, (2023) Vol.8, No.4, 405-425 DOI: 10.1287/stsc.2022.0179
  • "Positioning new identities for appeal: Configurations of optimal distinctiveness amid ancestral identities",
    Topaler, Başak; Koçak, Özgecan; Üsdiken, Behlül; , Strategic Organization, (2023) DOI: 10.1177/1476127021999966
  • "The role of signals in new venture financing in the context of an emerging market: a configurational approach",
    Topaler, Başak; Adar, Gülcan; , International Journal of Emerging Markets, (2023) Vol.20, No.1, 407-427 DOI: 10.1108/IJOEM-08-2022-1234
  • "Shared Identity Schemas Shape Incumbent Responses to New Entrants",
    Topaler, Başak; Koçak, Özgecan; , Strategy Science, (2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2022.0179
  • "The Status Granted to Organizational Identity Characteristics: An Application of the Best-Worst Method and Regression Analysis"
    , Topaler, Başak; Çavdaroğlu, Nur Ayvaz; , International Series in Operations Research and Management Science, , Springer Science + Business Media (2022)
  • "Understanding the relationship between university characteristics and prestige",
    Topaler, Başak; Ayvaz-Çavdaroğlu, Nur; , International Journal of Organizational Analysis, (2022) DOI: 10.1108/IJOA-05-2020-2166
  • "Diffusion of Pure and Hybrid Forms of a Practice: Language of Instruction in Turkish Universities, 1983–2014",
    Topaler, Başak; Üsdiken, Behlül; , European Management Review, (2021) Vol.18, No.2, 173-185 DOI: 10.1111/emre.12439
  • "Judgments of Capability and Conformity as Distinct Forms of Social Judgments, and the Way They Interact to Shape Evaluator Decisions",
    Topaler, Başak; Küp, Eyüp Tolunay; , Social Science Quarterly, (2020) Vol.101, No.4, 1634-1641 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12823
  • "Variation in the adoption of a diffusing practice: Instruction in English in Turkish universities",
    Topaler, Başak; Üsdiken, Behlül; , 76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2016, (2016) 1439-1444 DOI: 10.5465/AMBPP.2016.107
  • "How removing prescription drugs from reimbursement lists increases the pharmaceutical expenditures for alternatives",
    Gür Ali, Özden; Topaler, Başak; , European Journal of Health Economics, (2011) Vol.12, No.6, 553-562 DOI: 10.1007/s10198-010-0270-2

Projects

Project Name Role in the Project Project Type Fund Establishment Start Date End Date
"Dıssal Sokların Yeni Girisim Kurulusu, Yapısı ve Performansına Etkilerinin Analizi" Yürütücü Ulusal Proje TÜBİTAK ARDEB 29.08.2025
 29.02.2028

Courses Offered

Course Name Course Code Period
Multivariate Data Analysis BA656 2024/25 Spring
Strategic Management BUS402 2024/25 Spring
Strategic Management and Business Simulation MBAD522 2024/25 Fall
Introduction to Business Administration BUS101 2024/25 Fall
Introduction to Business Administration BUS101 2025/26 Fall
Strategic Management and Business Simulation MBAD522 2025/26 Fall