A producer survey on Turkish furniture industry
Author
Öğün, Emir Polat
Advisor
Mercan, Murat
Date
1996Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
Turkish furniture industry has been growing steadily since the liberalization of Turkish
economy in early 1980’s. However, the industry faces some technological and
economical problems which affects the competitiveness of the firms in the global market.
The major problems of the firms in the furniture sector is availability and quality of raw
materials, and the productivity of labor. Turkish furniture manufacturers can be classified
into two categories; small job-shops (workshops) and big firms. Small job-shops are
scattered all over the country and their major market is domestic. Whereas big firms
market their products domectically, and internationally. In this thesis we have
investigasted Turkish furniture industry
Keywords
WorkshopFactory
Raw Material
Quality
Technology
Productivity
Cost
Export
Tepe Furniture Company