Export Barriers for Companies that are Operating in the Organized Industrial Zones: An Application of Mersin Tarsus Organized Industrial Zone

Foreign trade activities have an important place in national economies. Companies may be met several difficulties while doing these economic contribution. Governments can make contributions to the national economy processes by proving some part of their infrastructure services presented to the companies which have the capacity to carry out export businesses. One of those infrastructure services is Organized Industrial Zones which enable industrial activities to be performed at predetermined suitable locations and contribute to the development of both regional and national economies. 108 questionnaires were sent to export companies located in the Mersin-Tarsus OIZ, and 49 of the questionnaires returned. In this study, which was planned to be a descriptive one, research questions were formed based on the literature. Factor analysis, reliability analysis and descriptive statistical analysis were used. Variables were grouped under seven subtitles as a result of the factor analysis carried out: inabilities of the company itself, barriers related to the foreign market environment, financial barriers, lack of knowledge, bureaucratic barriers, cultural differences, transportation costs and lack of support