Journal Articles

Tasli-Karabulut, V and Sancak, M (2024) Vocational education and training: A pathway for refugees' integration in the labour market? Lessons from Syrian refugees in Tarsus, Turkey, Industrial Relations Journal, 55(6), pp.401-424, ISSN: 0019-8692. DOI: 10.1111/irj.12442.

Sancak, M (2023) Why do national skill systems vary? The state’s role in skill system institutions for maintaining growth models, New Political Economy, 29(3), pp.478-493, ISSN: 1356-3467. DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2023.2279077.

Sancak, M (2021) The varying use of online supplier portals in auto parts‐automotive value chains and its implications for learning and upgrading: The case for the Mexican and Turkish suppliers, Global Networks, 22(4), pp.701-715, ISSN: 1470-2266. DOI: 10.1111/glob.12348.

Sancak, M (2019) Partisan politics of skills in middle-income countries: Insiders, outsiders and the vocational education system of Turkey, Competition & Change, 24(3-4), pp.291-314, ISSN: 1024-5294. DOI: 10.1177/1024529419888430.

Sancak, M and Özel, ID (2018) When politics gets in the way: domestic coalitions and the making of skill systems, Review of International Political Economy, 25(3), pp.340-363, ISSN: 0969-2290. DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2018.1455062.

Sancak, M (2018) Ulrich Jürgens, Martin Krzywdzinski, The new worlds of work: Varieties of work in car factories in the BRIC countries, Competition & Change, 22(3), pp.332-339, ISSN: 1024-5294. DOI: 10.1177/1024529417752264.

Books

Sancak, M (2022) Global Production, National Institutions, and Skill Formation The Political Economy of Training and Employment in Auto Parts Suppliers from Mexico and Turkey, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780198860655.

Chapters

Sancak, M (2026) Vocational training. In Wilson, G and Maguire, M (ed) Elgar Encyclopedia of Business and Government, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.307-312.

Sancak, M (2025) Immigrants and Refugees in the Skill Systems of Middle-Income Countries. In Skills Values and Development the Political Economy of Education in Latin America, pp.245-269, DOI: 10.1093/9780197803219.003.0010.

Sancak, M (2022) Introduction to: Global Production, National Institutions, and Skill Formation: The Political Economy of Training and Employment in Auto Parts Suppliers from Mexico And Turkey. In Global Production, National Institutions, and Skill Formation: The Political Economy of Training and Employment in Auto Parts Suppliers from Mexico And Turkey, Oxford University Press, pp.3-24, ISBN: 9780198860655. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198860655.003.0001.

Sancak, M (2020) Finding Skills: Strategies of Local Auto Parts Supplier Firms in Mexico and Turkey. In Covarrubias V, A and Ramírez Perez, SM (ed) New Frontiers of the Automobile Industry: Exploring Geographies, Technology, and Institutional Challenges, Springer International Publishing, pp.429-452, ISBN: 978-3-030-18881-8. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-18881-8_17.