Crisis management in companies and a research about the readiness of the small and medium sized companies inside the Middle East Centre of Industry and Trade (OSTİM) for a crisis

them face to face with unexpected dangers and opportunities. On the other hand the competition increased by the globalization increases the risk of the companies to encounter with crisis?.All these situations caused an obligation of giving importance to the concepts of crisis and crisis management for the companies. Because when the crisis management is fully used the companies become prepared to unexpected events and can overcome crisis? with minimum lost. On the other hand when the crisis management concept begins to be used by companies, the companies will become prepared to uncertainties, the disadvantages of crisis? can be prevented, the employees can be away from falling to an unemployed position, the waste of time can be decreased to a minimum and the most important, the presence of the company will not fall into danger.In this study, the small and medium sized companies working in the production industry inside OSTİM are criticized according to their point of view about the concepts of crisis and crisis management and it is aimed to determine the readiness of these companies to a crisis. Moving from this point the managers and/or the owners of a 100 company working in OSTİM has been found. The data have been compiled by the way of face to face interviews.As the result of this research it has been understood that the owners and/or the managers of these companies did not have enough knowledge about crisis management. It has been determined that they did not give enough importance to these subjects.