IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/conmgt/v19y2001i2p135-144.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Sources of competitive advantage of Turkish construction companies in international markets

Author

Listed:
  • Ozlem Oz

Abstract

Michael Porter's diamond framework, a relatively recent attempt to improve our existing knowledge on the sources of competitive advantage, is applied to the Turkish construction industry. The results of this undertaking challenge a common approach that attributes Turkish contractors' success in international markets to labour cost advantages and geographic and cultural proximity to several promising markets. In the light of the diamond framework, Turkish contractors' advantages are found not to be limited to these 'factor conditions' and 'chance' events. There are other important advantages behind their success, such as the existence of a dynamic home market, favourable entrepreneurial variables, and pressures to upgrade stemming from intense domestic rivalry. The analysis also points to the areas in which they face troubles, including problems induced by the government, financing difficulties and the weak international position of the Turkish design engineering and consultancy services industry.

Suggested Citation

  • Ozlem Oz, 2001. "Sources of competitive advantage of Turkish construction companies in international markets," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(2), pages 135-144.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:conmgt:v:19:y:2001:i:2:p:135-144
    DOI: 10.1080/01446190010009988
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01446190010009988
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/01446190010009988?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Van Den Bosch, Frans A. J. & Van Prooijen, Arno A., 1992. "The competitive advantage of European nations: The impact of national culture -- a missing element in porter's analysis?," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 10(2), pages 173-177, June.
    2. Zeynep Sozen & Mehmi Kucuk, 1999. "Secondary subcontracting in the Turkish construction industry," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(2), pages 215-220.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. George Ofori, 2003. "Frameworks for analysing international construction," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(4), pages 379-391.
    2. Irem Dikmen & M. Talat Birgonul, 2006. "A review of international construction research: Ranko Bon's contribution," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(7), pages 725-733.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. repec:cmj:journl:y:2013:i:29:hagiu is not listed on IDEAS
    2. Angelos Kotios & Spyros Roukanas & Emmanouil Karakostas, 2019. "Protectionism or Strengthening Competitiveness: The Case of the United States of America," SPOUDAI Journal of Economics and Business, SPOUDAI Journal of Economics and Business, University of Piraeus, vol. 69(3), pages 21-34, July-Sept.
    3. Dekuwmini Mornah & Raymond MacDermott, 2016. "Culture as a Determinant of Competitive Advantage in Trade," International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences Applied Research (IJBESAR), International Hellenic University (IHU), Kavala Campus, Greece (formerly Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology - EMaTTech), vol. 9(1), pages 69-76, April.
    4. Corinna Doegl, & Dirk Holtbruegge, 2010. "Competitive advantage of German renewable energy firms in Russsia – An empirical study based on Porter’s diamond," Journal of East European Management Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 15(1), pages 34-58.
    5. Oz, Ozlem, 2002. "Assessing Porter's framework for national advantage: the case of Turkey," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 55(6), pages 509-515, June.
    6. Arild Aspelund & Mohammad Javadinia Azari & Andreas Flåt Aglen & Sondre Gullord Graff, 2018. "The birth and development of a born global industry: The case of microelectronics in Norway," Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Springer, vol. 16(1), pages 82-108, March.
    7. Garud, Raghu & Gehman, Joel & Giuliani, Antonio Paco, 2014. "Contextualizing entrepreneurial innovation: A narrative perspective," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 43(7), pages 1177-1188.
    8. Yui-Yip Lau & Adolf Ky Ng & David Guerrero, 2014. "Becoming a major hub in the distribution of wine: Hong Kong as a gate to Asian markets," Post-Print hal-01069882, HAL.
    9. Alina HAGIU & Marinela BĂRBULESCU, 2013. "The Competitive Advantage Of Nations And The Particularities Of Romanian Companies," CrossCultural Management Journal, Fundația Română pentru Inteligența Afacerii, Editorial Department, issue 2, pages 23-35, November.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:conmgt:v:19:y:2001:i:2:p:135-144. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RCME20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.