ABSTRACT
The analysis for the Turkish flat steel industry reveals that the industry is more likely to derive advantage from most of the factors included in the determinant ‘firm strategy, structure and rivalry’. An overall evaluation of the factor conditions for the Turkish flat steel industry looks bleak. The chance events for the Turkish flat steel industry are the Asian crisis, which resulted in considerable contraction in the world market. An assessment of the role of government in shaping the sources of advantage in the Turkish flat steel industry reveals that it is a rather direct role, definitely more direct than the one Michael Porter assumes. The flat steel industry in Turkey provides the major inputs for the pipes and profiles, automotive, fuel storage and related equipment, tinplate industrial users, household and related equipment, agricultural machinery production, electrical machine production, shipbuilding, durable consumer goods, can-making and machine tools industries.
