Using of the advanced technologies in Turkish automotive industry

Nowadays, technological change exists as the most important organization dynamics. It is possible that the organizations may make the development and benefit strategies insurable in the global competition circumstance by keeping an harmony with this technological change. The organizations, therefore, need to use very different management and production technologies. One of the sectors in which these technologies are mostly used is the automotive industry. In the world, it is estimated as the development rate coming from the past is observed that it will continue its development rate in the future. The existence of this industry becomes as an important economical power for the countries as it is considered with main production industry and supply industries that it affects. The automotive industry is a sector that is developing each year with the increasing importance in Turkish economy. The country is preferred by a lot of global firms as a production and a marketing base for because of the reasons as like cheaper manpower, being close location, the encouraging, and the economical stabilization in recent years. In this study, the present usage levels and the estimated levels of the technologies of the organizations operating in automotive production industry in Turkey are considered and realized. The effects of the management and the production technologies on the business criteria are also investigated. And the relation between these criteria and the estimated levels that the organizations want to reach is studied.