Economic Crises, State Interventions and the Smes: The Case of Wholesale and Retail Smes in Gimat , Ankara

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This thesis aims to investigate how the 2001-2008 and 2018 economic crises experienced by Turkey and the indirect and direct financial interventions of the State against these crises affect and develop the Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the wholesale and retail sector in Turkey. Therefore, this research focuses on the consequences of these interventions on employers by approaching SME managers as law enforcement and affected recipients of interventions. The effects of these state interventions on the change and transformation of the wholesale and retail sector in Turkey today are analyzed, and the effects on wholesale and retail SMEs selling beverages and food products on Ankara Gimat wholesalers site are investigated. While detailing the intervention tools implemented by the State in different crisis periods in Turkey, it is argued that the intervention logic, in which the State only focuses on financial instruments, has no market or institutional effect on employers. While it is seen that consumers are affected by the crisis and their price orientation increases during the crisis, the effects on the wholesale and retail sectors of discount and chain markets in Turkey are discussed. While it is seen that this affects the development of the Turkish wholesale and retail sector, it has been discussed how wholesalers and retailers who transitioned to the retail field are affected by this process. It is aimed to reveal how financial intervention tools make employers more dependent on the State in different crisis periods. At this point, different employer groups are defined as wholesalers and retailers in Gimat and former wholesalers who have switched to organized retail. There is also the Gimat association, of which employers are members. The field study carried out within the scope of this thesis is based on interviews and focus group discussions with employers and association managers of these SMEs.

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SMEs, Service SMEs, Wholesale and retail sector, Economic crisis, State intervention

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E. Aydoğan, “Economic Crises, State Interventions and the Smes: The Case of Wholesale and Retail Smes in Gimat , Ankara,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.