Corporate governance in small and medium-sized enterprises and an application in Antakya industry area

The corporation or institutional structure of companies head the list of the most important issues which should be dealt with in terms of identification of the problems causing failure and providing competition and priority of the companies which are indispensable actors of the global economies in the markets those bear continuous changes and developments.As a result of the company scandals in the past such as WorldCom, Parlamat and Enron, it has been attached more importance to the institutional company structures and accordingly to the corporate governance models and the principles and policies in this respect have become widespread. This kind of management perception that provides diversification in the method of management of the companies and named as ?corporate governance? may be regarded as taking place under the cultural, legal and financial structures of the countries.Especially in many countries, small and medium sized companies, which are also named as dynamic structures, are indispensable elements of the economy of the countries with their roles such as providing economic revival, structural change, job creation and its consistency with the technological developments. In the global competitive atmosphere, importance of improvement of the management and organization skills in order to provide the survival of the small and medium sized companies and to grow their competitive power has been gaining ground day by day. For that reason, making more research on the managerial and organizational problems and their reasons is required as necessary.In this study, prepared as master thesis, it has been aimed to determine the extent to which the method of management carried out in the small and medium sized companies in the industrial area of Antakya acquire corporate identity. During the study, both data has been collected by searching literature and the field survey has been realized by conducting a poll. According to the findings of the application, it has been determined that the small and medium sized companies in the industrial area of Antakya aren?t predisposed to being institutional concerning their management perception and that a certain corporate governance perception doesn?t exist in most of the companies. Besides, there have been made some suggestions to the companies having taken place in the application and to the other ones regarded as small and medium sized companies about revising their method of management.