Purpose – The aim of this study is to determine the context of short- , medium- and long-term functional strategies of small- and middle-sized family businesses carrying on activities in different sectors, as well as to discuss the findings from the point of view of the strategic orientations...

A wide range of empirical studies show the extent to which the rise of supermarkets in developing countries transforms domestic marketing channels. In many countries, the exclusion of small producers from so-called dynamic marketing channels (that is, remunerative ones) has become a concern....

This study evaluates spatial variation in the relationship between agricultural output and input use across Turkey. The potential impact of the national agricultural policy reform introduced in 2001 on the spatial variation in agricultural output elasticities across the country was explored. By...

This paper models factor demand for manufacturing sector in Turkey. We estimated a translog cost function with four factor consist of capital, labor, intermediate input and electricity over the 1980-2001. Our objective, taking in the consideration electricity as production input, was twofold: on...

Biyoyakıtların üretimi 2006 yılında 21 milyona ulaşmış ve 2030 yılında 147 milyon ton olması beklenmektedir. Gelişmiş ve gelişmekte olan ülkelerin her ikisinde de biyoyakıtların üretimi ve tüketimini teşvik edici politikalar uygulamaktadır. Petrole bağımlılığın...

A common difficulty in estimating demand functions for developing countries is the lack of time series data. With the available cross-sectional data resulting from extensive surveys on households, most researchers have concentrated on the estimation of expenditure elasticities by ignoring the...

Turkish Energy Regulatory Agency (EMRA) announced in September 2011 that biofuel blending will be mandatory starting from 2013 and 2014 for bioethanol (2%) and biodiesel (1%) respectively. The blending ratio will be increased to 3 percent for bioethanol in 2014 and biodiesel in 2016. This study...