The Problems and Suggested Solutions of Small and Medium Size Furniture Producing Firms in Istanbul


Aras R., İMİRZİ H. Ö., Akin H.

JOURNAL OF POLYTECHNIC-POLITEKNIK DERGISI, cilt.10, sa.1, ss.105-110, 2007 (ESCI, TRDizin) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 10 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2007
  • Doi Numarası: 10.2339/2007.10.1.105-110
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF POLYTECHNIC-POLITEKNIK DERGISI
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.105-110
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Small and medium size firms which has a large place in Turkish economy, and its assistance to production and human resource useage can be defined by the; adaptibility to sudden changing market conditions, having a flexable and dynamic ability. To identify the problems about the furniture producing firms in Istanbul, their current status and to reconstruct in a increasing competitive situation, a questionary has been made by the means of face to face interview and inquary. According to this study's results the less of educated labor with a percentage of 35.5%, with a percentage of 27.5% raw material, technologic incapacity with a percentage of 24% and energy insufficiency with a percentage of 13%. These problems had been considered and some suggestions about solving these problems were made as follows; encouraging this compines, education to use modern technologic production techniques, cheap energy, education about marketing and advertisement.