The effects of logistics applications in Turkish textile– clothing industry on national competitiveness

Abstract

Nowadays ongoing rapid change and developments in modern management arenaclosely affects management methods as well. Having parallels with this ongoing change anddevelopments in modern management arena of the understanding of providing the serviceshave started to change as well. After production processes as much as production processes ofthe products are the important factors in competition.This research aims to find out the effect of logistics applications of Turkish textile andclothing industry on the competition in national arena. This research was done on the currenttextile- clothing companies which were registered to TOBB (Union of Chambers andCommodity Exchanges of Turkey) in the last quarter of 2012. In the industry logisticsapplications were studied and these were evaluated in terms of competitive power.Consequently, some differences were found out in relation to the effect of logisticsapplications in textile and clothing on competitive advantage.