Production and marketing structure of large scale forestry products industry enterprises in Turkey

Abstract

In Turkey, a country with 21.2 million ha of forest land, it is evident that the processed forest products have
not been able to be developed to realize their potential with regards to the exports possibilities. It is obvious
that the situation is to the disadvantage of Turkey in terms of the trading equilibrium when the exports and
imports figures are examined. According to the results of the research carried out locally with respect to the
Turkish Forest Products Industry, the emphasized problems emerge as the misapplication of incentives, the
disability to catch up with the technological innovations, problems regarding raw material quality,
undercapitalization, lack of qualified personnel, etc. By the help of this study which had been planned to cover
the whole Turkish Forest Products Industry; the target is to reveal the structural situations of the large scale
businesses in Turkey in the first few years of the 20th century, where modern management principles are
assumed to be applied. The research had been finalized with the comments made upon the results of the
questionnaires gathered through mostly face-to-face interviews with 415 large scale forest product firms
where it was assumed that contemporary management principles and technological developments were
applied relatively easier. As the questionnaire study was applied by the researchers themselves directly, it
was also supported through observations