ECONOMIC AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF STANDARDIZATION

Year 2013, Issue: 4, 127 - 144, 24.11.2015

Fatma Algan

Abstract

Standardization is the act of identifying rules and requirements in a specific subject to set a system due to the current and potential problems. Standards are the documents prepared with a consensus of all related parties like industry, consumers, public authorities considering health, safety and environmental issues. Standards have lots of economic and socio-economic benefits for the users. Besides economic benefits of standardization such as expanding volume of business, increasing market share, time and cost saving and forecasting; increasing, employment compatibility, flow of information, innovation and establishment of partnerships are defined as socio-economic benefits of standardization. Standardization provides a lot of advantages for small and medium size enterprises (SME’s) such as developing standards according to their production methods and supporting their market conditions. In this article, standardization and it’s general framework are defined and economic and socio-economic benefits of standardization are evaluated.

Keywords

Standard, Standardization, Standards Preparation, Economic Benefit, Socio-Economic Benefit

STANDARDİZASYONUN EKONOMİK ve SOSYO-EKONOMİK GETİRİLERİ

Abstract

Standardizasyon mevcut ve olası problemler dikkate alınarak, belirli bir konuda ortak ve tekrar eden kullanımlar için en uygun düzeyde bir düzen gerçekleştirilmesi amacıyla gerekli hükümlerin oluşturulması faaliyetidir. Standartlar, sağlık, güvenlik, çevre temel gereklerini gözetmek suretiyle sanayi, tüketiciler, kamu otoriteleri ve ilgili tüm tarafların işbirliği ile hazırlanan dokümanlardır. Standardizasyon, işletmelere ekonomik ve sosyo-ekonomik birçok getiri sunmaktadır. Standardizasyonun, ticari faaliyetlerin artması, pazar payının artırılması, maliyet ve zaman tasarrufu ve öngörülebilirlik gibi ekonomik getirileri yanında; istihdamın artırılması, ulusal ve uluslararası uyumun sağlanması, bilgi akışı, inovasyonun artırılması, stratejik ortaklıklar kurulması gibi sosyo-ekonomik getirileri de bulunmaktadır. Standardizasyon, KOBİ’lere de üretim koşullarını standartlara yansıtmak ve pazar koşullarını iyileştirmek gibi birçok avantaj sunmaktadır. Çalışmada; standardizasyon faaliyetleri ve bu faaliyetlerin genel çerçevesi tanımlanmakta ve standardizasyonun ekonomik ve sosyo-ekonomik getirileri incelenmektedir.

Keywords

Standart, Standardizasyon, Standart Hazırlama, Ekonomik Getiri, Sosyo-Ekonomik Getiri

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