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IJRRAS 11 (3) ● June 2012
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COMPETITIVENESS OF THE INDUSTRIES BASED ON THE PORTER'S DIAMOND MODEL: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
İsmail Bakan 1 & İnci Fatma Doğan2 Department of Business, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, The University of Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam (KSU), Avşar, Kahramanmaraş. Email: ibakan63@hotmail.com, ikurtulgan@hotmail.com
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ABSTRACT Michael Porter offered a model that allows examining why some states are more competitive and why some industries within states are more competitive than others are. In this way, Porter‟s diamond model of national competitiveness was detected as a model with which to assess the sources of competitive advantages of an industry in a particular country and it can help realise the competitive status of a nation in global competition. This model consists of four national determinants of competitive advantage: factor conditions, demand conditions, related and supporting industries, and firm‟s strategy, structure and rivalry. The Porter‟s theory is that these factors interact with each other to form conditions where innovation and competitiveness occurs. As the purpose of this study is to find out the main factors which affect the competitiveness of the sectors, the well known model in the literature developed by Porter was used. By using Porters‟ model Sun and his colleaguse (2010) provided a new model arguing that four variables of the diamond model (the factor conditions, the demand conditions, the related and supportive industries and the government) affect the competitiveness factor. In this article, the competitiveness of basic industries in the city of Kahramanmaraş were investigated by using Porter‟s Diamond model with the argument of Sun and his colleaguse. To achieve the aim of the research both primary and secondary data collection techniques were used. Parts and the items of the questionnaire were derived from related literature. The
www.arpapress.com/Volumes/Vol11Issue3/IJRRAS_11_3_10.pdf
COMPETITIVENESS OF THE INDUSTRIES BASED ON THE PORTER'S DIAMOND MODEL: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
İsmail Bakan 1 & İnci Fatma Doğan2 Department of Business, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, The University of Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam (KSU), Avşar, Kahramanmaraş. Email: ibakan63@hotmail.com, ikurtulgan@hotmail.com
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ABSTRACT Michael Porter offered a model that allows examining why some states are more competitive and why some industries within states are more competitive than others are. In this way, Porter‟s diamond model of national competitiveness was detected as a model with which to assess the sources of competitive advantages of an industry in a particular country and it can help realise the competitive status of a nation in global competition. This model consists of four national determinants of competitive advantage: factor conditions, demand conditions, related and supporting industries, and firm‟s strategy, structure and rivalry. The Porter‟s theory is that these factors interact with each other to form conditions where innovation and competitiveness occurs. As the purpose of this study is to find out the main factors which affect the competitiveness of the sectors, the well known model in the literature developed by Porter was used. By using Porters‟ model Sun and his colleaguse (2010) provided a new model arguing that four variables of the diamond model (the factor conditions, the demand conditions, the related and supportive industries and the government) affect the competitiveness factor. In this article, the competitiveness of basic industries in the city of Kahramanmaraş were investigated by using Porter‟s Diamond model with the argument of Sun and his colleaguse. To achieve the aim of the research both primary and secondary data collection techniques were used. Parts and the items of the questionnaire were derived from related literature. The