Abstract
Organizations of all types and levels in the 21st century should try to compete, raise product quality or assure efficiency in the services they provide in order to survive and thrive. In today's environment, when change and transformation are experienced regularly and competitiveness skills are crucial, businesses have to manage their resources effectively and efficiently in order to survive and be effective. Strategic management, which is the topic of the research, is one of the most critical concerns for businesses, and organizations aim to use their existing resources in the most appropriate and most beneficial way to achieve their goals. One of the most acceptable ways to do this is to eliminate the disadvantages by leveraging its positive characteristics and to limit the threats by taking advantage of the possibilities. The purpose of this research is to systematically investigate the consequences of strategic management approaches employed by enterprises in Turkey in their competitive gains, through the researches performed in the present national literature. The method of the research is a descriptive qualitative systematic review. The working document of the research consists of 11 studies done between January 2020 and October 2021 on the consequences of strategic management approaches used by firms in competitive gains in the national literature. The studies that compose the working document of the research were analyzed according to the 6 analysis parameters (purpose, research model, sample of the research, data collection instruments, data analysis and findings) defined by the researcher in the light of expert opinions. Research outcomes; According to the analysis parameters set, the outcomes of the results of the strategic management approaches utilized by the enterprises in Turkey in the present national literature on the competitive gains were analyzed. According to the results of the research; It can be said that the strategies applied in digital media for businesses to compete, how to manage new and huge amounts of data coming from digital media and how to use data to better personalize offers and messages for ever narrowing customer segments should be considered. It is expected that this systematic review research will contribute to the future studies to be done on the scope of strategic management and competition and to the companies associated to the subject.