Family Business and Entrepreneurship Application and Research Center (AGMER)

Asst. Prof. Nazan Çağlar Director of Istanbul Kültür University Family Businesses and Entrepreneurship Application and Research Center (AGMER), and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Prof. Dr. Ali Şen, visited Tekin Urhan, Chairperson of the Board of the Turkish Family Business Association (TAIDER).

During the visit, which was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2021, the issues of updating the previously signed protocol between Istanbul Kültür University and TAIDER were discussed, as well as existing collaborations.

The panel titled “Corporative Resilience Among the Family Businesses” is organized in collaboration with Istanbul Kültür University Family Businesses and Entrepreneurship Research and Application Center (AGMER) and the Management Consultant Foundation, on June 23, Wednesday at 20.00 via ZOOM and Youtube. In the panel where the Dean of our Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Prof. Dr. Ali Şen, Atıl Pekşen one of the shareholders of Levent Kimya and Fahrettin Otluoğlu Management Consultant & CMC, the arguments about the resilience of family businesses were shared.

Assist. Prof. Nazan Çağlar, Director of the Istanbul Kultur University (IKU) Family Businesses and Entrepreneurship Application and Research Center (AGMER), gave an interview on the subject of institutionalization in family businesses to AIMSAD Magazine, published by the Woodworking Machinery and Side Industries Businessmen Association (AİMSAD).

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The third panel of the series titled "Digital Transformation Journey in Family Businesses" was held on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, in cooperation with Istanbul Kültür University (IKU), Family Business and Entrepreneurship Application and Research Center (AGMER) and the Management Consultants Association, in order to discuss the problems experienced by family businesses and their solution suggestions. Workcube Community Leader Ömer Turhan, Prof. Dr.

An e-panel titled "What Awaits Family Businesses After Pandemic?" was held on Wednesday, April 21, 2021 in cooperation with the Family Business and Entrepreneurship Application and Research Center (AGMER) and the Management Consultants Association.

In collaboration with IKU Family Business and Entrepreneurship Application and Research Center (AGMER) and the Management Consultants Association, a webinar titled “Transformation into the Future in Family Businesses” organized on February 24, 2021, Wednesday. The event, in which Unified Mind Network Moderator Tınaz Titiz, Management Consultant Prof. Dr. İlhan Erdoğan and Hürriyet Newspaper columnist Ergi Şener were speakers, moderated by Dünya Newspaper Director Hakan Güldağ.

A protocol was signed between the Family Enterprises and Entrepreneurship application and Research Center (AGMER) under İstanbul Kültür University (IKU) and TAIDER on issues such as university-industry cooperation and education, especially family enterprises.

The 8th Family Businesses Congress, which is organized biennially by İstanbul Kültür University (İKÜ) Family Businesses and Entrepreneurship Application and Research Center (AGMER), was attended by family business members, executives, managers, academicians and researchers participated in the Family Business Congress which was organized on April 9-10 for the 8th time. The İKÜ Chairman of the Board of Overseers Dr. Bahar Akıngüç Günver said, “In more conservative family businesses women are not considered as leaders.

The İstanbul Kültür University (İKÜ) Family Businesses and Entrepreneurship Application and Research Center (AGMER) organized the panel titled “Family Asset Management in Family Businesses, Family Office and Family Entrepreneurship Fund” on April 24, 2017 in the Önder Öztunalı Conference Hall.