Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, cilt.5, ss.10014-10022, 2011 (SSCI İndekslerine Giren Dergi)
This study aims to identify the nature of the mission statements of the largest companies in Turkey and around the world and to analyse these statements in a comparative fashion. To that end the web-based mission statements of companies have been examined according to a content analysis method with three distinct criteria, which are used frequently in the literature. In order to determine whether there is a difference in the nature of the mission statements according to where the companies are located, independent groups t-test has been applied. As a result of this study it has been determined that all the companies utilize relatively qualified mission statements and that there is no significant difference between them.