In this study, micro-sized enterprises (with 1–9 employees)
operating in the furniture manufacturing sector in Gumushane
province, one of the 81 provinces of Turkey, were selected for
investigation. The furniture-manufacturing industry is classified
as a sub-section of the manufacturing sector and is coded as Section
36 within the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities
in the European Community. According to TSI data, there are 33
enterprises in Gumushane that fall under Section 36 coding. The
number of enterprises engaged in the production of furniture in
the province of Gumushane corresponds to 4% of all of the manufacturing
industry in the province. In addition, 47% of provincial
manufacturing sector businesses are micro-sized enterprises, 48%
are small enterprises, and 5% are medium-sized enterprises
(Anonym, 2012). All businesses operating in the furniture-manufacturing
industry in the province of Gumushane are micro-sized
(Top et al., 2013).
Table 1