Özet:

In a constantly changing and increasing competitive environment, SMEs need to keep up with both developing economic conditions and technological conditions to continue their activities. In this environment, the concept of corporate governance has been discussed in recent years and tried to be applied all over the world is an important concept. It is suggested that the Corporate Governance approach should be established in SMEs to eliminate the concerns and uncertainties of SMEs about the future, solve the problems arising from their own structures and developing outside of themselves. The aim of this study is to examine the perceptions of SMEs operating in the Van Organized Industrial Zone on corporate governance within the framework of Fairness, Responsibility, Transparency and Accountability, which are the basic principles of corporate governance. In addition, the legal structure of the enterprises, the education level of the business managers, the number of personnel working in the enterprises, the work experience of the managers are to examine the relationship with the corporate management approach. A face-to-face survey was applied to 91 SMEs reached using the random sampling method and the data obtained were analyzed with the SPSS 22.0 package program. Reliability analysis, frequency analysis and Kruskal Wallis-H test were used in the study. According to the findings, it has been determined that the majority of the companies participating in the survey were limited companies and there is no significant difference between the legal structures of the companies, the work experience of the business manager, the education level and the number of personnel employed, and the perceptions of corporate governance.

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