Examination of relationships between size of the businesses and reverse logistics applications: A study on businesses registered on İstanbul Chamber of Commerce

This study aims on the explanation of the sustainable development and reverse logistics operations are not incompatible together and together they will create some synergy and add positive contributions to the size of the businesses and level of development of the businesses and the level of awareness of the reverse logistics and the level of application, quality of activities, application skills and the level of application efficiency have been evaluated for their meaningful relationship empirically. In order to examine the positive and negative effects of the element of the reverse logistics on the businesses, for the sixty businesses that are registered under the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce with most of them are subjected to likert scale within the questionnaire of twenty-five questions and for the analysis of such questions, screening and relational screening models were being applied and all the responses received within this model were being analyzed with non-parametric methods. Accordingly, it can be said that with the level of development and the business reverse logistics activity quality have a comparative meaningful connection and the level of awareness for the reverse logistics and the level of application, application skills and the efficiency and the application has not any meaningful connection with the advancement level of the business. In order to prevent the tables that make the anxiety for the future, the solution should be explained, the successful businesses are perfectly applying the solution and the execution of the solution should be formed a domino effect and the accelerate the acceptance visibility in general and this study have the importance in order to execute the aforesaid goals. Key Words : Reverse Logistics, Level of Development, Level of Awareness, Quality of Activity, Application Skills, Application Efficiency