Politics, technology and development : decision-making in the Turkish iron and steel industry
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Politics, technology and development : decision-making in the Turkish iron and steel industry
（St. Antony's/Macmillan series）
Macmillan in association with St Antony's College, Oxford, 1991
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Includes bibliography and index
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Several years ago, having co-authored, a study of the Aswan Dam for the Rand Graduate Institute, which was developing materials for courses in technology and public policy, the author began to think about studying another large project to determine whether the pattern of decision making in the Aswan Dam case was idyosincratic or whether it was commonplace. That pattern had led to significant problems and, though it could not be easily assessed whether the dam's benefits exceeded its costs, there was no doubt that the costs that were incurred, social, economic, cultural and environmental, were much higher than they needed to be. While carrying out a project concerning an iron and steel plant at Eregli, the author became interested in the overall condition of Turkey's iron and steel sector and began to explore the possibility of expanding the work that he had done and placing it within a larger context, both theoretical and empirical. A Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship in the summer of 1983 enabled him to carry out the necessary research and a sabbatical year, in 1984-1985, at St Antony's College, Oxford, gave him the opportunity to write a first draft.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Technological decision making and national development: the technological project
- the technology transfer process
- the nature of technological mastery
- politics, policy and decision-making
- technological decisions and project analysis
- the project cycle and technological decision making
- technological decision-making, technology transfer and the project cycle. Part 2 Iron and steel in Turkish development: strategies of development
- the iron and steel sector
- the global scene
- Ataturk's development strategy
- the Karabuk plant
- the emergence of a multi-party system
- the arrival of national planning
- Turkey's development strategy and its consequences. Part 3 The decision to build Erdemir: the negotiations
- the design issues
- the impact issues
- the management issues
- the implementation. Part 4 Salvaging the project: Turkish perspectives
- the new studies
- the new loan
- the Sinter plant decision. Part 5 The expansion of Erdemir: project approval
- the design of the project
- management issues. Part 6 Isdemir, Sidemir, Karabuk - projects and comparative perspectives. Part 7 Technological decision making - retrospect and prospects: the quality of technological decisions
- the functioning of the transfer
- the nature of technological decision making
- the emergence of a new perspective.
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