Florida Atlantic University

Crummer Graduate School of Business

Bilkent University, Ankara

Dr. Yapici is a scholar of international business whose work is rooted in organizational theory and the sociology of institutions. Her research examines how institutional systems—made visible through their social and cultural representations—enable and inhibit strategic action. She specializes in qualitative methodologies, with ongoing work on the incompletion of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBMAs), the performative role of scandal, and the affective dimensions of institutional disruption.

Her published work on corporate social irresponsibility investigates how “forgetting work” operates as a social mechanism, allowing organizations to obscure past misdeeds and maintain legitimacy. Through this lens, she explores how memory, responsibility, and institutional silence are strategically managed.

Looking ahead, Dr. Yapici is advancing several critical research streams: a study on how corporate sustainability narratives in the battery electric vehicle (BEV) sector may paradoxically enable modern slavery; an inquiry into how immigrant backgrounds shape entrepreneurial practices and constraints; and a nascent project interrogating the ethical and organizational implications of animal labor in the workplace.

In her teaching, she actively explores AI's pedagogical integration as a tool and a topic of inquiry. She designs AI-assisted assignments, promotes transparency in digital tool usage, and encourages strategic engagement with complex, real-world dilemmas. She teaches courses such as Global Strategy Dynamics and International Management at the undergraduate level and Strategic Management at the MBA level.

Dr. Yapici holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Florida Atlantic University, an MBA from Rollins College, and a B.A. in American Culture and Literature from Bilkent University.

Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions, Scandal, Corporate social irresponsibility, Institutional Theory

• Kara, A., & Yapici, N. (2024) Uncovering the Effects of Micro and Macro Factors for Opportunity-Driven Female Entrepreneurship. Würzburg International Business Forum's 7th International Business Conference Proceedings

• Yapici, N., & Dheer, R. (2023) Forgetting Corporate Irresponsibility: The Role of Corporate Political Activities and Stakeholder Characteristics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05482-1 (Journal of Business Ethics, SSCI Journal)
• Yapici, N., & Dheer, R. (2022) Forgetting Work: Its Role in Sustaining Corporate Social Irresponsibility. AOM 2022, Seattle, Proceedings and Special Issue for Best Paper Award
• Yapici, N. & Hudson, B. A. (2020) Generating a Scandal: Non-market activity to stop a cross-border merger and acquisition. DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2020.100759 (Journal of International Management, SSCI Journal)
• Yapici, N. (2013) Environmental Hostility: An MNC Drama. Journal of Knowledge Globalization, 6 (1): 47-78
• Yapici, N. (2022) An MNC Drama: Environmental Hostility. AOM 2012, Boston, Proceedings
• Yapici, N. (2012) MNC Expansion and Target Environment Hostility. Journal of Management Policy and Practice, 13(5): 128-144 (EBSCO, ProQuest)
• Yapici, N. (2010) Foreign Direct Investment and Spillover Effect on the variation of Local Firm Performance. International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets, 2(4): 425 - 442 (Academic One File, ECONLIT)

WORKS IN PROGRESS (NOT YET SUBMITTED TO A JOURNAL)

• Yapici, N. & Hudson, B.A. Cross-border M&As: Incorporating Emotions in Institutional Processes Leading to Incompletion.
• Yapici, N. & Dheer, R. EV Rhetoric vs. Reality: How do tales take hold?
• Yapici, N. & Dheer, R. Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Influence of multicultural identity and multicultural experiences on venture formation
• Yapici, N. & Hudson, B.A. Mobilizing scandal to stop a deal: The politicization of cross-border M&As.
• Yapici, N. & Hudson, B.A. Incomplete CBMAs: A story of delegitimization and stigma
• Yapici, N. & Dheer, R. Immigration and Entrepreneurship: How does background influence being an entrepreneur?

Global Strategy Dynamics and International Management at the undergraduate level and Strategic Management at the MBA level.