The Impact of Sectoral Trade Delegations On Firms’ Export Performances within the Scope of Market Research and Market Entry Support

The purpose of this study is to evaluate to which extent sectoral trade delegations organized in 2015 served to increase exports within the scope of the Ministry of Economy "Communiqué on Market Research and Market Entry Support", which is an export-oriented state subsidy for improving export performance of enterprises. Within the scope of this thesis, a questionnaire study was carried out on the enterprises; The questionnaire was sent to a total of 218 companies selected from among the companies in the database of the Ministry of Economy participating in the sectoral trade delegation programs, and 60 of them answered the survey questions. IBM SPSS 20.0 version was used in the analysis of the data obtained from the questionnaire forms that were answered. Hypothesis tests, correlation and regression analyzes were performed in this frame respectively. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that the sectoral trade delegations organized under market research and market entry support had an effect on the export performance of the enterprises