The Relationship between Globalization and E-Commerce: Turkish Case

Globalization has been one of the most prominent phenomenon of the 20th century that shaped the world economy dramatically. Globalization process is followed by the decline in administrative barriers to trade, sharp falls in the costs of transportation and communication, fragmentation of production processes and the development in information and communication technology which formed basis for diversification of resources, creation and development of new investment opportunities by opening up additional markets, and accessing new raw materials and resources. Telecommunications and transport links flourished by the globalization created a new way of accessing to the new markets through e-commerce. However in a broad sense e-commerce concept, affecting employment patterns, productivity and industry structure, is much broader than it's perceived relationship between globalization and e-commerce is nebulous. In this regards this study investigates the relationship between globalization and e-commerce. The evidences presented in the study present that rather than a one way relation a mutual relation is observed. However the level of technology and telecommunications substructure of the country in question vary the direction of the relation. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).