The Effect of Market Based Competence on the Business Performance: An Application in Turkish Manufacturing Business

The main aim of this thesis is to analyze the marketing based competences in the perspective of research based of view and, in this context to investigate the effects of marketing based competences on the business performance. Big and medium sized enterprises are determined from the list of Turkish manufacturing businesses. The research is done by survey methodology to 500 business managers from the determined list. Analyzed using SPSS 16.0 package program. Partial least squares method is used to test the constructed model and the hypothesis. The validity and the reliability of the scales used in the research is tested and, they both measurement and structural model is analyzed with SMART PLS programme. In this study, it is found that the effect of the marketing based competences on the business performance is direct and positive