Sibel Yamak is a professor of management at the University of Wolverhampton. She has a doctorate degree in Organization Theory from Bogaziçi University. She has been a permanent and/or visiting scholar at different universities such as Galatasaray University, Dauphine University, Panthéon Sorbonne University, Southampton University, Sapienza University and Manchester University among others. She specialises in sustainability and governance with a focus on the relationship between the business elites and the state, the contextual antecedents and impact of top management teams, governance and democratisation relationship and corporate social responsibility. In 2007, she received the Emerald Literati Network award for her work on business elites. Her works have been published in peer reviewed journals such as British Journal of Management, Strategic Management Journal, Group and Organization Management, European Management Journal, Journal of World Business, International Journal of Human Resource Management. She is an editorial board member of Society and Business Review, Corporate Governance and Research & Development Studies and European Management Review.

Prof. Yamak is a former President of the European Academy of Management. She is the board member of European Institute of Advanced Studies in Management and acts as the scientific council member at several universities in France.  She received Outstanding Service Award from the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management. She is awarded fellowship by the European Academy of Management.

Her research interest includes areas like business elites and top management teams, corporate social responsibility, corporate political activity, business-state relations, corporate governance and sustainability.

Current PhD supervisions:

• The Race to the Top: The Experiences and Strategies of Women of Colour in Getting Professorship Positions in UK Universities
• Business Sustainability: Understanding the Contemporary Factors that Influence the Adoption of Sustainability Practices in the Nigerian SMEs
• The Impact of Sustainability Committee Characteristics on Corporate Sustainability Performance: Evidence from the FTSE 150 Non-Financial Companies
• Investigating the adoption of Green Marketing Orientation by inter-sectoral Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
• Investigating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Ghanaian cocoa industry
• Intersectional Perspective of Black Women on Boards: The Illusion of Inclusion
• Women directors in Chinese companies

European Academy of Management

Academy of management

• PhD Management,  Bogazici University
• MA Management,  Bogazici University
• BA (Hons) Business Administration, Bogazici University

Books

Cucari N., Yamak, S., Eposito DeFalco, S., Lee, B. (2023). Handbook Research Methods for Corporate Governance: Innovative methods for future research. Edward Elgar Publications.  

Gabrielsson, J., Khlif, W. & Yamak, S. (2019) Research Handbook on Board of  Directors. EE:UK

Yamak, S., Ertuna, B. (2017) A Primer in Corporate Governance: Turkey. Business Experts Collections Press/Momentum Press: NY.

Yamak, S. (2007)  Kurumsal Sosyal Sorumluluk Kavramının Gelişimi (The Evolution of Corporate Social Responsibility) Beta:Istanbul.

Articles/chapters

Yamak, S., Karatas-Ozkan, M., Godwin, E. S., Mahmood, S., & Rahimi, R. (2023). Transformation or Retaining the Status Quo: Multinational Hospitality Companies and SME Collaboration on Sustainability in Emerging Countries. In Handbook of Research on Sustainable Tourism and Hotel Operations in Global Hypercompetition (pp. 490-516). IGI Global.

Karatas‐Ozkan, M., Özgören, Ç., Yamak, S., Ibrahim, S., Tunalıoğlu, M.N., Pinnington, A., Nicolopoulou, K. and Baruch, Y., (2022). Dual nature of the relationship between corporate social responsibility and human resource management: A blessing or a curse?. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 29(5), pp.1578-1594.

Brabet, J., Özbilgin, M., Yamak, S. (2021) Changing the rules of the game in academic publishing: three scenarios in the field of management research. International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics. 10.1504/IJBGE.2021.10041274  

Gabrielsson, Khlif and Yamak (2019) When in Rome do as Romans do: A call for more context sensitive research on board of directors. In Gabrielsson, J., Khlif, W. & Yamak, S (Eds). Research Handbook on Board of  Directors. (pp. 2-15) EE:UK.

Ertuna, B,; Karatas-Ozkan, M, ; Yamak, S. (2019) Diffusion of sustainability and CSR discourse in tourism industry: Dynamics of local context, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. DOI: 10.1108/IJCHM-06-2018-0464

Yamak, S., Ergur, E., Karatas-Ozkan, M., & Tatli, A. (2018). CSR and leadership approaches and practices: a comparative inquiry of owners and professional executives. European Management Review DOI:org/10.1111/emre.12318

Alessandro Zattoni, Michael A. Witt, William Q. Judge, Till Talaulicar, Jean Jinghan Chen, Krista Lewellyn, Helen Wei Hu, Jonas Gabrielsson, Jose Luis Rivas, Sheila Puffer, Dhirendra Shukla, Felix Lopez, Emmanuel Adegbite, Yves Fassin, Sibel Yamak, Stav Fainshmidt, Hans van Ees. (2017). Does Board Independence Influence Financial Performance in IPO Firms? The Moderating Role of the National Business System. Journal of World Business, 52:628-639.

Yamak, S., Ergur, A., Alakavuklar, O., & Özbilgin, M. (2016). Gender as Symbolic Capital and Violence: The Case of Corporate Elites in Turkey. Gender, Work and Organization, 23(2): 125-146.

Ergur, A., Yamak, S & Özbilgin, M. (2015).Understanding the nature of the relationship between the state and business elites. In G. Morgan, S. Quack P. Hirsch, (Eds.) Research in the Sociology of Organizations: Elites on Trial. (pp.107-139). Emerald:UK.

Judge, W.Q., Witt, M.A., Talaulicar, T., Zattoni, A., Talaulicar, T., Chen, J., Lewellyn, K., Hu, H., Shukla, D.,Bell, R. G., Gabrielsson, J., Lopez, F., Yamak, S., Fassin, Y., McCarthy, D., Rivas, J., Fainshmidt, S., Van.Ees, H. (2015). Corporate Governance and IPO Underpricing in a Cross-National Sample: A Multi-Level Knowledge-Based View" Strategic Management Journal, 36: 1174–1185.

Yamak, S., Ertuna, B., Levent, H., & Bolak, M. (2015). Collaboration of Foreign Investors with Local Family Business Groups in Turkey: Implications on Firm Performance.  European Journal of International Management, 9:263-281.

Yamak, S., Ergur, A., Ünsal, A. Uygur, S. & Özbilgin, M. (2015). Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Corporate elites in the context of religion and secularism in Turkey. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26:1474-1497.

Yamak, S., Nielsen, S., & Escriba-Esteve, A. (2014).The Role of External Environment in Upper Echelons Theory: A Review of Existing Literature and Future Research Directions. Group and Organization Management, 39(1): 69-109.

Yamak, S. & Ertuna, B. (2012).Corporate governance and initial public offerings in Turkey. In A. Zattoni & W. Judge (Eds.), Corporate governance and initial public offerings: An international perspective. (pp.470-498). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.

Yamak, S., Ergur, A., Ünsal, A., Özbilgin M., & Çoker E. Ü.( 2011). New Turkish Business Elites: Resources, Networks, Boundaries, and Mobility. In Andrew and Nada Kakabadse (Eds) Global Elites: The Opaque nature of Transnational Policy Determination, p.130-156. Basingstoke: Palgrave:UK

Ertuna, B., & Yamak, S. (2011). Foreign Equity Configurations in an Emerging Country: Implications for Performance, European Management Journal, 29(2): 117-129.

Yamak, S. (2008). Le changement institutionnel et Le Milieu des Affaires en Turquie. In Y. Mathlouthi (Ed.) Maghreb et Sciences Sociales: Les Economies Emergentes, Trajectoires Asiatiques, Latino-Américaines, Est-Européennes et Perspectives Maghrébines. (p. 113-123).  L’Harmattan: Paris.

Yamak, S., Ertuna, B., & Bolak, M. (2006). “Sahiplik Dağılımının Birleşik Liderlik Yapısı Üzerine Etkileri” (The Impact of Ownership on CEO Duality) Yönetim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 85-107.

Yamak, S.& Üsdiken, B. (2006 ).“Economic Liberalization and the Antecedents of Top Management Teams: Evidence from Turkish ‘big’ Business” British Journal of Management, 17: 177-194.

Yamak, S. (2006). “Changing Institutional Environment and Business Elites in Turkey” Society and Business Review, 1(3): 206-219.

Yamak, S. (2005). Institutional Roots of Stakeholder Interactions. In M. Bonnafous-Boucher &Y. Pesqueux (Eds.).  Stakeholder Theory: A European Perspective (p. 73-89) Palgrave:UK.

Yamak, S.& Süer, Ö. (2005). “State as a Stakeholder” Corporate Governance: International Journal of Business in Society, 5 (2):111-121.

Özer, B. & Yamak, S. (2000). “Self-Sustaining Pattern of Financing in Small Businesses: The Case of Turkey” International Journal of Hospitality Management, 19: 261-273.

Yamak, S. (1998). “Türkiye’de Yönetici Elitlerin Eğitim Durumu: 80’lerden 90’lara Neler Değişti?” Amme İdaresi Dergisi, 31: 65-78.

Yamak, S. (1997) “Responses to Organizational Justice: The Case of Maternal School Children.” Revue des Sciences Sociales Galatasaray, 1: 107-116.

Özer, B. & Yamak, S.  (1992). “Effect of Gulf Crisis on Risk Return Relationship and Volatility of Stocks in Istanbul Stock Exchange”, METU Studies in Development, 19: 209-223.

Özer, B.& Yamak, S. (1991).  “Initial Return Characteristics of Public Offerings in Istanbul Stock Exchange” Boğaziçi University Journal of Economics and Administrative Studies, 5:139-151.

Management Training on Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (Received best trainer award in 2015)

Management Training on Corporate Governance and Sustainability

Management Training on Strategy and Business Simulations

Consultancy for SMEs

Teaching interests

• Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics,
• Top Management Teams and Business Elites

Previous roles as external examiner of PhD Vivas:

Brunel University (UK), Southampton University (UK), Manouba University (Tunisia), Sabancı University (Turkey), ESADE (Spain), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel).

Previous roles as external examiner of grants and faculty promotion:

La Sapienza University (Italy), Project evaluation at TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), Bogazici University (Turkey), Akdeniz University (Turkey)

Invited presentations and keynote speeches 

“Why should ESG matter to business” panellist at the National Conference of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) on 22 June 2022, Birmingham, UK

“Sustainability and Corporate Governance” 15 April 2021, La Sapienza University, Italy

“Sorumlu Arastirma” 17 December 2020 Galatasaray University Turkey

“The impact of COVID on management research” 4 November 2020 IFSAM Conference

“Yonetim ve Organizasyon Arastirmalarinda Sorumluluk” 26 June 2020 Aydin Universitesi, Turkey

“Future prospects of a career in management” 09 March 2020 EECC Huddersfield University, UK.

“Sustainability and corporate governance” (keynote speaker) 03 October 2020 International conference “New Challenges in Corporate Governance: Theory and Practice”, Naples.

“Responsible Research” 25 June 2019 EURAM Lisbon.

“Advice for researchers for career development” 24, May 2019 - 13th International Conference: Growth, Competitiveness, Innovation and Well-being”,  Croatia.

“State of Management Scholarship in Europe” 9 June 2018, IFSAM Conference, Shanghai

“Sirketler, seckinler, sorumluluklar” (Keynote speaker) 10 May 2018, Yonetim ve Organizasyon Kongresi, Turkey

“Engaged Scholarship” 19 June 2017, EURAM Doctoral Colloquium, Stratchlyde University, UK

“Increasing authoritarianism and nature of work” May 11, 2017, Peter Pribilla Foundation Workshop Waischenfeld, Germany

“An Overview of the Editors and Reviewers’ Expectations at EMR to Deal with Their Comments” September 28, 2016, University of Valencia, Spain.

“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Corporate elites in the context of religion and secularism in Turkey” March 17, 2015, Brunel University, UK.

“Les élites managériales et la diversité en Turquie: Mythes et réalités ” Paris Dauphine University, June 19, 2015 France.

“Entreprendre: Le genre par rapport aux relations familiales et au professionnalisme” 3eme Journée PME et Territoire, December 12, 2014 Corse University, France.

“Social Responsibility of Business: A Comparative Analysis. USA - Europe - Turkey -Russia” Moscow Higher School of Economics, October 15, 2014 Russia.

 “Governance and Business Elites: Differences in Perceptions and Practices in an Emerging Country” (Keynote speaker) Toulouse Business School Barcelona Campus, Corporate Governance Workshop, June 11, 2014 Spain.

“Turkish Family Businesses” Witten Institute for Family Business, July 10, 2013, Germany.

 “Emerging Country Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship” (Keynote speaker) October 24, 2012, Southampton University, UK

“Foreign Investor, Governance and Performance” European Group for Corporate Governance November 17, 2012, Berlin Technical University Germany

“How to Publish in International Journals”  Institut Supérieur de Comptabilité et d’Administration des Entreprises (ISCAE) Manouba University Tunisia, February 2010.

 “L’impact Du Changement Institutionnel Sur Les Echelons Supérieurs Des Entreprises” (Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain) Tunis, Tunisia, 16 November, 2007.

“La Crise Bancaire Turque : Son Impact Sur Les Entreprises ” ISCAE Tunis, Tunisia, 9 November 2005.

“Corporate Misbehaviours and Board of Directors: An Emerging Country Case” GREGOR (Centre de Recherche), IAE, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University, Paris, France 7 July 2004.

“Institutional Roots of Stakeholder Interaction” LIPSOR (Centre de Recherche), Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et des Métiers (CNAM), Paris, France, 7 May 2004.

“L'influence Du Cadre Institutionnel Ainsi Que Des Caractéristiques De L'entreprise Sur La Composition Des Equipes Managériales Du Haut Niveau ”   GREGOR (Centre de Recherche), IAE, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University, Paris, France, 2 February 2000