A research on the effect of the green marketing strategies on accessing purposes in businesses

Today, increasing awareness about environment and environmentalism, rising concerns about sustainability, causes fundamental changes in the practices and management philosophies of enterprises. Green marketing points out that businesses need to focus not only on profitability but also on corporate and social responsibility for their survival. In a globalizing world, it is very important to integrate green marketing practices with every function of the enterprise for a corporate reputation, a green image for trusting corporate reputation, green marketing strategies to create a green image and a strong green marketing strategy to gain competitive advantage. In this study, it is aimed to measure whether the presence of environmental strategies of the enterprise differs according to green marketing practices, environmental protection studies, green marketing mix elements, environmental responsibilities and customer relations. Another aim of the study is to measure the relationships between green marketing strategies, government environmental regulations, supplier/ stakeholders and business objectives. The questionnaire, which was formed for this purpose, was applied to small and medium-sized enterprises by e-mail, 653 enterprises were returned and the data obtained were analyzed. The results confirm the claims of the hypotheses.