Lying in a transformation period of economic development, economic prosperity, social progress and development in science and technology have to rely on strong competitiveness of a nation’s universities to a large degree. Actually, universities’ competitiveness is closely related to the improvement of a nation’s competitiveness in human resources, industrial development and its comprehensive st...

Monte Carlo simulation is used to develop a flexible framework to measure the profitability, risk, and competitiveness of any insurance product. A genetic algorithm is then used to seek the optimum asset allocations that form the profitability-risk-competitiveness frontier and to examine the profitability, risk, and competitiveness trade-off's. We also show how to select the appropriate asset a...

The thesis studies Taiwan’s shifting role in international footwear sourcing networks over the last three decades. It draws on multiple sources of data, including in-depth interview, field observation, and published data, to construct phases and faces of the socially embedded market. The research points to the anomalies in the comparative advantage theory, evaluates the weakness of the state-ce...

This paper reviews alternative approaches to measuring an economy’s cost competitiveness and proposes some new measures derived from the economic theory of index numbers. The indices provide a theoretical benchmark for estimated real e¤ective exchange rates, but di¤er from standard measures in that they are based on marginal rather than average sectoral shares in GDP or employment. The use of t...

Based on the date from China’s high technology statistics, this paper compares the competitiveness of high technology enterprises of three different regions in China from the three angles for judging the competitiveness of enterprises, respectively, the indicator values of the competitiveness of sizes of enterprises, the indicator values of the competitiveness of management of enterprises, and ...

Unit cost is undoubtedly the most critical factor for the competitiveness of a product. Therefore, evaluating the competitiveness of a product according to its unit cost is a reasonable idea. The current practice assesses the competitiveness at a number of check points in the product life cycle, and then averages the results. This approach is computationally simple but theoretically doubtful. T...

The paper discusses economic policy of Georgia aiming to increase national competitiveness as well as the tools and means which will help to improve the competitiveness of the country. The sectors of the economy, in which the country can achieve the competitive advantage, are studied. It is noted that the country’s economic policy plays an important role in obtaining and maintaining the competi...

In this era of competitiveness, there is a growing need for supply chains also to become competitive enough to handle pressures like varying customer’s expectations, low cost high quality products to be delivered at the minimum time and the most important is throat cutting competition at world wide scale. In the recent years, supply chain competitiveness has been, therefore, accepted as one of ...

The paper develops a model of destination competitiveness that will enable comparison between countries and between tourism sector industries. The model seeks to capture the main elements of competitiveness highlighted in the general literature, while appreciating the special issues involved in exploring the notion of destination competitiveness as emphasized by tourism researchers. Associated ...

Due to rapidly changing environment based on triple play, the conovation of competitiveness in telecommunication industry has also changed. The operators should adjust their strategic direction timely according to changes in competitive environment. So how to promote the competitiveness under triple play has become a hot issue in telecommunication industry. Based on ISM (Interpretative Structur...