Restructuring and New Spatial Tendencies in Ankara Furniture Sector

Large metropolitan areas provide significant competitive advantage to industries with a high degree of uncertainty and product diversity such as furniture (Erdil et al., 2008; Scott 2008aScott , 2014;;Mderrisolu and Korten, 2015).In the Turkish scenario, the furniture industry has developed in areas such as Istanbul, Bursa, zmir, Kayseri, Ankara, etc.This is because, innate to these large metropolitan areas is their propensity for technologically-driven restructuring, access to raw materials, and high market concentration (TK, 2017).Figures from TK (2017) show that in 2017, stanbul (13%) and Ankara (6%) ranked 1 st and 2 nd in the furniture industry apropos the numbers of firms in Trkiye.Additionally, in terms of employment, stanbul (20%), Bursa (14%) Kayseri (12%) and Ankara (8%) ranked 1 st , 2 nd , 3 rd and 4 th respectively in Trkiye's furniture industry.