Türkiye’nin En Büyük Sanayi Kuruluşlarının Kıyaslama Uygulamaları Üzerine Bir Araştırma

Benchmarking is a management tool which helps companies to obtain competitive advantages in both
national and global markets. It also improves the success of strategic management process in companies.
The purposes of this study are to determine the benchmarking practices of The First and Second 500
Industrial Enterprises of 2006 in Turkey within organizational departments, with competitors in the same
sector and with other companies in different sectors for their functions and processes; and analyze the
differences between the benchmarking practices of these companies. This paper highlights the importance
of benchmarking to acquire national and global competitive advantages for major industrial enterprises in
Turkey. It explains that these companies need to conduct strategic management processes based on their
benchmarking practices. The descriptive research method is used in this study. The frequency distribution
analyses and chi-square analyses were applied to the data. This study is unique in the benchmarking field.
It leads companies to understand the importance of benchmarking and apply benchmarking in their
organizations in Turkey.