Abstract
Defense Industry is one of the most important contributors to a country's power in economic and political domain. In this sector, there is always the need for continuous innovation and modernization parallel to the technological developments. In this context, aim is to improve the supply chain management for Defense Sector with the efforts of providing for it nationally through the life cycle management approach. The purpose of this study is to determine the conceptual enabling factors, the barriers and the targeted dynamics within the supply chain in the context of the Turkish Defense Industry and to create a model that may be useful for it. First, the detailed review of the relevant writings on the concepts affecting the defense industry and supply chain relationship performed. Then, the academic and industrial opinions about the bilateral interaction of these concepts have been obtained and analyzed with the help of Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) Method, which chosen as the proper decision making methodology for this work. Thus, a general model for the Turkish Defense Industry Supply Chain is established. In addition, the academic and the industrial views related to these enablers provided to the users separately and comparatively.
Highlights
Because of being located in the world’s one of the most instable region, Turkey needs a developed defense industry
Purpose of this work is to determine conceptual enablers and barriers to supply chain targeted to establish within Turkish defense industry dynamics, with literature research and expert opinions in order to give some idea to Turkish defense industry firm managers about the concepts that they have to take care of
Research and Development (R&D) Ability is stated as an important primer enabler for especially Economic Sustainability and Competitiveness of defense industry firms (Gates, 2004; Graham and Hardaker, 1998; Jackson, 2004); R&D Ability (E1) is qualified much more like a goal for our collected perspective
Summary
Because of being located in the world’s one of the most instable region, Turkey needs a developed defense industry. Purpose of this work is to determine conceptual enablers and barriers to supply chain targeted to establish within Turkish defense industry dynamics, with literature research and expert opinions in order to give some idea to Turkish defense industry firm managers about the concepts that they have to take care of. Another purpose is to analyze these determined enablers’ mutual interactions on the basis of academic and sectoral expert opinions with interpretive structural modelling (ISM). Academic and sectoral opinions will be compared for the interaction of these enablers
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