TÜRKİYE’DE İTHAL ODUN HAMMADDESİYLE İLİŞKİLİ ORMAN ENDÜSTRİ İŞLETMELERİNİN GENEL YAPISI

: It is known that the wood raw material imported in Turkey has important role for forest industry. In this research, the basic characteristics, marketing works and management problems of the forest industry enterprises dealing with imported wood raw materials such as round wood, sawn wood, and shaped wood product are determined. Data were collected by full count from the main mass of enterprises importing a total of 500 m 3 wood and above in different provinces of Turkey for 2014-2015 period. In this context, face-to-face interviews were conducted with a total of 233 enterprises. Collected data were subjected to descriptive statistical analysis. The enterprises within the scope of the research differ as firms that import product and market directly (45), convert the imported product into final products (56) by processing it in their own facilities, and process and market the imported product (132). While 60% of the enterprises are located in the Marmara Region, the legal structures of 56.2% are limited companies. About half of the enterprises (46.6%) were established between 1980-1999 and employ 10,056 people. While the capacity utilization rate is average 61,5%, the major reason of the idle capacity (35.6%) is shown as the insufficient demand in the market. While the lack of qualified staff and workforce in production is seen as the biggest problem (64.4%), lack of desired quality of domestic raw material in supply (39.6%), problems in the collection of the prices of the products sold at the marketing stage (36.3%) are seen as the most important problems. Industrial enterprises use 51% domestic and 49% imported timber raw materials in production. While the expectation to establish a relationship from distribution channels is seen as the first priority (47.8%), the widespread use of substitution among products (51%) cited as the biggest factor in the market shrinkage. 48.9% of the enterprises consider to keep the current situation in the future. In the last three years, currency instability (56.8%) has been identified as the most influential factors affecting the trade economically and foreign policy (28.9%) as politically.