Every researcher agrees that scholarly work has to be new, unique, truthful and should have potential applications for real life. There are however, various ways in which one can go about seeking for the truth and contribute to the state of the knowledge in a field such as Information Systems research. I am trained and interested in methodologies that are theory driven rather than empirical. Consequently, the tools I use for my research are founded in economics, and operations research methodologies.

As a researcher in business school, I believe that the research we conduct should stem from an interesting, non-trivial business problem. However, it is often the abstraction of the business problem that is worthy of research, as it is applicable to a general class of problems rather than that specific instance.


Research Grants & Projects

  • Provider Selection and Task Allocation Problems under Fuzzy Quality of Service Constraints and Volume Discount Pricing Policy for Telecommunication Network, Short-Term R&D Funding Programme, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Grant No: 110K609, Worked as Principal Investigator.

  • Total Budget: 10 500 TL
  • Duration: March 2011 – February 2012 (12 Months)


  • Automated Thread Loading System for Truck-Bus Tire Manufacturing Machines, Volkan Patoğlu and Nihat Kasap, San-Tez project, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Project has been conducted by Sabanci University and Brisa Bridgestone Sabanci Lastik San. ve Tic. A.S. Worked as Researcher.

  • Total Budget: 225 800 YTL
  • Duration: September 2007 – August 2008 (12 Months)


  • Applicability of mobile phone based e-government services in Turkey: A strategic assessment, Ronan Jouan de Kervenoael, Nihat Kasap, Enes Eryarsoy and D. Selcen Ö. Aykaç, Support Program for Scientific and Technological Research Projects, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Grant No: 107K272, Worked as Researcher.

  • Total Budget: 205 525 YTL
  • Duration: October 2007 – September 2009 (24 Months)


  • Sourcing Strategies under Quality of Service Requirements and different Pricing Schemes for Telecommunication Networks, Junior Researcher Career Development Program, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Grant No: 106K263, Worked as Principal Investigator.

  • Total Budget: 102 833 YTL
  • Duration: January 2007-December 2010 (36 Months)


  • Implementing Global Factory Schedules in Automated Facilities, Reha Uzsoy/Purdue University, Haldun Aytug/University of Florida, Shanta Mohan/Consilium Corp., Mark Lawley/Purdue University funded by NSF GOALI program, Grant No. DMI-0085047, Worked as Research Assistant.

  • Partners: University of Florida, Purdue University and Consilium Corp.
  • Total Budget: 595 488 USD (University of Florida Budget: 138 401 USD)
  • Duration: August 2001 – August 2004