Research Methodology, Methods and Design

Abstract

This chapter describes the research methodology and design of the study in detail. After the introduction, the second section includes some information about the automotive industry in Turkey, which includes basic economic indicators such as production, foreign trade, sales, capacity, employment, place of industry in world, AMMs, and the supply industry in Turkey. In the third and fourth sections, the scope, purpose, and main research questions of the study are discussed. Then, research methodology is justified. In the sixth section, the basic research methods adopted for data gathering are explained in detail. Lastly, some concepts and differences for the firms constructed and used in the analyses are described.