Basic problems of SMEs and SWOT analysis

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) are businesses that can be established with much less financing than the financing required by large industrial enterprises. SMEs have an important place in the economic and social life of the countries with their contributions such as employment, flexible production structures and producing semi-finished products in large enterprises. Turkey's economy and create jobs on both measures should be taken on the way to troubleshoot problems faced by SMEs is an important place in foreign trade. In this sense, SWOT analyzes were carried out by taking into consideration the main problems faced by SMEs and literature related to them. Within the scope of the research, literature has been scanned and academic studies related to the problems of SMEs have been examined before. As a result of the research, it was seen that among the problems of SMEs, production problems, managerial problems, financial problems, marketing problems, branding problems, standardization problems were found to take place in the first place.