Abstract:

The purpose of the research is to determine the effects of the 2008 Global Economic Crisis on firms. The research is carried out on 99 firms that are engaged in production activity in various sectors in Organized Industrial Zone I and Organized Industrial Zone II in Malatya. The data are collected using survey. Reliability of measurement tool (Cronbach’s Alpha) is 75%. Cross table, factor analysis, t-test and one-way ANOVA analysis are used in the research. As a result, the effects of the 2008 Global Economic Crisis are grouped under three factors, developmental effect, destructive effect and administrative effect. Firms are affected by the destructive effect of the crisis in different ways depending on whether they have past experience of crisis or not. Firms without past experience of crisis compared to those with experience are more exposed to the destructive effect of the crisis

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