Management Style at Turkish SMEs
Keywords:
smes, management style, small and medium sized business.Abstract
Republic of Turkey is one of those countries where SMEs are flourishing and acting as a driving force of development. In this paper, we explore management style at Turkish SMEs. Being an intersection of eastern and western cultures and with the recent liberalization of domestic markets, we believe this exploration can lead to interesting results. In this paper authors take a glance at Turkish SMEs. We investigate the management style at Turkish SMEs. We have gathered data from 421 SMEs located in Republic of Turkey, using a previously developed questionnaire. This study is an exploratory one and no hypothesis is configured. There are significant results regarding management style of Turkish SMEs. Individuals are more likely to work within a group and formal organizational structures and management policies are implemented as SMEs grow larger.
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