Yurtdışına yatırım yapan Türk işletmelerinde örgüt yapısı ve karşılaşılan sorunlar:İmalat sektöründe bir araştırma
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2007
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Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
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The purpose of this study is to determine how the international structure types used by the Turkish enterprises making direct investments abroad are effected by which dimensions and to determine what problems these enterprises face in their international operations. Furthermore, it is intended to determine the globalization trends of these enterprises regarding senior executive dispositions, strategic positions, global processes, cultural aspects of the enterprise, and performance perceptions.Questionnaire was conducted to 41 companies. In order to analyze the data, Non-parametric Correlation and Kruskal Wallis were used. The analyzes give important and significant results about the variables used in the research model. It is found that there is a relationship between the structure types used by the companies and following variables: the size of the companies, number of countries invested in, diversity of the products manufactured, the ratio of sales and production of affiliates abroad to total sales and production, ownership rate of the affiliates, overseas investment experience of the companies, and the degree of internationalization of the companies. No relationship is found between the structure types and degree of centralization, investment strategies (Greenfield investment, joint-venture, purchase, merger and etc..) for the international markets, and employment approaches.In this research, the level of globalization of the companies investing abroad were evaluated in context of the executives, cultural aspects, processes, strategies, structures, and the perceived performance of the companies. As a result, it was found that the Turkish companies? globalization tendency is more than localization tendency.In this research, it was found that the Turkish companies investing abroad have important problems in selecting the expatriate executives. In addition, application differences between the headquarters and the affiliates abroad caused some problems. Those application differences are such as coordination, auditing, reorganization and accounting. According to the results of this research, these companies do not have any problems concerning communication, finance, manufacture of adequate products for the consumer needs and wants in the countries of operation, and formal relations.
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Doğrudan yabancı sermaye yatırımları, Foreign direct investments, Strateji, Strategy, Uluslararası işletmeler