Most people approach the issue of competitiveness by attempting to define what it is or what it should be. However, it is also interesting to approach the matter from a different angle by examining what factors are not essential in establishing a country’s competitiveness on world markets. While certain factors are certainly helpful for promoting competitiveness, they nonetheless should not be ...

How does labor market competitiveness frame the impact of greater labor productivity and lower inequality on poverty? Specifically, does greater competitiveness increase the impact of higher labor productivity and lower inequality on poverty reduction? In a simple model, we show that there is complementarity between competitiveness and productivity – the greater is one, the larger is the impact...

The article includes the results and conclusions from empirical researches that had been done. The research focuses on the impact of investments made in small and medium-sized enterprises financed from EU funds on the competitiveness of these companies. The researches includes financial results in sales revenue and net income, expenses, and many other new products/services on offer, higher qual...

The paper aims to analyse the correlation between the adoption of technology production strategies and firm competitiveness, considering them under the view of contingent firm theory. In order to test the research hypotheses, the case of the tile ceramic cluster in Spain has been considered. Two surveys were carried out by the authors, covering a representative sample of the cluster. The paper ...

Article history: Received 18 December 2009 Received in revised form 25 December 2010 Accepted 1 March 2011 Available online 3 April 2011 Because enterprises do not disclose their internal specific cost information to the public and, moreover, every firm has its own product character and financial constitutions, it is difficult to offer fixed guidelines for investment decisions. Thus, an enterpr...

Performance measurement systems in today’s business environment are different from the 1960s and 1970s. The nature of today’s business is very unique and dynamic; and with the effect of globalization, the organization’s performance measurement system requires a different dimensional approach. To provide managers with useful information and to sustain competitiveness, the organization must measu...

The use of Big Data can hold considerable benefits for organizations, but there is as yet little research on the impacts of Big Data use on key variables such as competitive advantage. The antecedents to Big Data use aiming at competitive advantage are also poorly understood. Drawing from prior research on the ICT-competitiveness link, this research examined the relationship of organizational u...

Several reports on national competitiveness already exists, but they are not satisfactory. This paper corrects the problems of the existing reports and suggests new methodologies of explaining national competitiveness. When comparing national competitiveness, nations should be grouped with regard to similarities in terms of economic scale and structure. For this purpose, this paper introduces 3...

Urban competitiveness aids local development by encouraging the exploitation of opportunities for economic development and by enhancing overall performance. Previous studies have evaluated urban competitiveness primarily from an economic perspective and few studies have considered locational conditions as factors that might influence local industrialization and urbanization. In response to the ...

Research on within-subject changes in women's intrasexual competitiveness has generally focused on possible relationships between women's intrasexual competitiveness and estimates of their fertility. While this approach is useful for testing hypotheses about the adaptive function of changes in women's intrasexual competitiveness, it offers little insight into the proximate mechanisms through wh...