The Three waves of Transition in Iran's Defense Industries: With an Emphasis on Anti-Armor Missile

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1 Tarbiat Modares University

2 National Research Institute for Science Policy

3 Malek Ashtar University of Technology

Abstract

This paper tries to provide a socio-technical explanation of the formation and transition of Iran's defense Industries in the past 50 years. The main framework using a combination of technical and social elements to make such explanation is the multi-level perspective (MLP). This framework describes transition through interaction of different landscape, regime and niches levels in socio- technical systems, such as defense industry, but in the developing world transition is the path of formation of these levels. In this paper, Bourdieu's field theory is applied to understand regime and niche formation. According to Bourdieu's field theory, we narrate how niche and regime positions are produced as two cores of socio-technical field in Iran defense industries. Focusing on anti-armor industries, we elaborate the three periods of transition in Iran's defense industries to "Dual Core Field" by means of Bourdieu's triple levels of inquiry. In each of these periods — named as "the waves" —defense field and its habitus has certain conditions. In the first wave, the exploitation of "Turn-Key" plants in a hierarchal structure occurs. In the second, the hierarchical is broken, bottom-up forces become active and technological learning accelerates. Industrial regimes grow in greenhouses. In the third wave, the niche cores are formed in the industry.

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Innovation Management Journal
Volume 4, Issue 2 - Serial Number 12
September 2015
Pages 1-34

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  • Receive Date: 11 September 2015
  • Revise Date: 22 October 2015
  • Accept Date: 23 November 2015

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