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Publication date: 1 September 2000

Kayhan Mutlu

Policing in a democratic, free society is one of the essential arguments in the literature. However, the data collected from the police chiefs (N = 306) show that nepotism and…

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Policing in a democratic, free society is one of the essential arguments in the literature. However, the data collected from the police chiefs (N = 306) show that nepotism and favouritism, enforced mostly by politicians, are the main problems in police organization in Turkey. That means that legality is ignored by the governing political parties at the expense of democratization of policing. Consequently, law enforcement and maintaining social order within the principles of democracy are problematic in Turkey, which may provide such a climate as to favour organized criminal groups, that are against democratization of the country.

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Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, vol. 23 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1363-951X

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Publication date: 22 June 2010

Fethi Calisir, A. Elvan Bayraktaroğlu, Cigdem Altin Gumussoy, Y. İlker Topcu and Tezcan Mutlu

The purpose of this study is to determine the relative importance of the usability and functionality factors for online auction and shopping web sites from the perspective of…

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Purpose

The purpose of this study is to determine the relative importance of the usability and functionality factors for online auction and shopping web sites from the perspective of young consumers.

Design/methodology/approach

The Analytical Network Process (ANP) was used to analyse the relative importance of the usability and functionality factors.

Findings

The findings show that customers of online auction and shopping web sites give higher priority to usability and usability factors than to functionality, with navigation and interaction being the factors of highest relative importance.

Practical implications

First, customers assign higher priority to usability factors. Thus, early in the design phase, designers should attach more importance to navigation‐ and interaction‐related aspects of their web sites. Second, designers of web sites should include basic and advanced search options to increase the number of the web site users.

Originality/value

The study is the first to examine the relative importance of the usability and functionality factors of online auction and shopping web sites. Furthermore, the study fills this gap by identifying the complex interrelationships between various features of usability and functionality, and their impact on each other, by examining two Turkish online‐auction and shopping web sites.

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Online Information Review, vol. 34 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1468-4527

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