In the present research work, it is identified determining factors of productivity and competitiveness in province Tungurahua (Ecuador) from territorial sustainable development perspective, through use three techniques: individualized interview, focus group survey different representative actors, coming to conclusion, this case, that driving are: human capacities, politic economic environment, ...

In today’s competitive environment evaluating firms’ performance properly, is an important issue not only for investors and creditors but also for the firms that are in the same sector. Determining the competitiveness of the firms and evaluating the financial performance of them is also crucial for the sector’s development. The aim of this study is developing a fuzzy model to evaluate the perfo...

European national policies involve a range of support measures to enhance the competitiveness of certain regions or products, inlcuding financial and institutional instruments. Some of these support measures involve environmentally counterproductive impacts. The question that rises in importance on the international agenda is how to reform these support measures, such that the original objectiv...

Recent reports by Latham (1994) and Egan (1998) have emphasized the need for the construction industry to increase its competitiveness, and have suggested the use of performance measurement as a tool for continuous improvement. Comprehensive measurement of a company’s performance and subsequent feedback to its managers is vital for business transformation. Measurement also enables businesses to...

Banks continually claim to supply customer-orientated services. However, banking services are still focused on purely delivering financial products. Customers will usually receive financial products but often no specific solution to their true problem. In that way, customers’ perception of banking services is often far from satisfaction. In addition, important targets of marketing strategy (e.g...

â â â  â â â â  abstract â  as the chances of a successful conclusion to the doha round of trade liberalization under the wto become increasingly problematic, so the pace of negotiating local free trade agreements (ftas) is increasing. according to the wto report, countries in the asia-pacific region are “consolidating their drive towards regionalism at an accelerated pace”. after the trade...

With rising trading volumes in domestic and cross-border security transactions, risks faced by global financial firms and markets are increasing. To manage settlement risks and maintain competitiveness in global financial markets, the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has decided to shorten the settlement cycle of security transactions from the current T+3 to T+1. As a result, key pla...

Mergers and Acquisitions are important corporate strategy actions that aid the firm in external growth and provide it competitive advantage. In today’s globalized economy, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are being increasingly used the world over, for improving competitiveness of companies through gaining greater market share, broadening the portfolio to reduce business risk, for entering new ma...