Abstract:

Regardless their economic structure, special attention is given to small and medium-sized enterprises “SME’s” in both developed and developing countries. Today, for socio-economic reasons, governments support and encourage the SMEs, the vast majority of the total number of enterprises providing the employment and production volumes. In this context, the main problem of this research is whether the characteristics of business structure of SMEs and the personal characteristics of top management have an impact on the management and organization problems of SMEs. The research sample of the study constitutes 172 top managers working in various levels in SMSs. As a result of the study in which the scale of “Management and Organization Problems Encountered by SMEs” is used, it is found that the problems in the enterprises were caused by the structural problems of SMEs rather than the management and the organizational problems.

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