Industries and Global Competition

Industries and Global Competition
Author: Bram Bouwens
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2017-09-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317190645

Changes in the dynamics of economic activities since the last decades of the 20th century have yielded major changes in the composition of industries and the division of labor and production across different regions of the world. Despite these shifts in the global economy, some industries have remained competitive even without relocating their operations overseas. Industries and Global Competition examines how and why the specificities of certain industries and firms determined their choice of location and competitiveness. This volume identifies the major drivers of this process and explains why some firms and industries moved to other parts of world while others did not. Relocation was not the sole determinant of the success or failure of firms and industries. Indeed some were able to reinvent themselves at their original location and build new competitive advantages. The path that each industry or firm took varied. This book argues that the specific characteristics of each industry defined the conditions of competitiveness and provide a wide range of cases as illustrations. Aimed at scholars, researchers and acadmeics in the fields of business history, international business and related disciplines Industries and Global Competition exmaines the unique questions; How and why did the specificities of certain industries and firms determine their choice of location and competitiveness? Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Competitive Strategy

Competitive Strategy
Author: Michael E. Porter
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1998
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780684005775

In this pathbreaking book, Michael E. Porter unravels the rules that govern competition and turns them into powerful analytical tools to help management interpret market signals and forecast the direction of industry development.

Systemic Competitiveness

Systemic Competitiveness
Author: Klaus Esser
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113521266X

The authors emphasize that an economy's competitiveness relies on purposive and intermeshed measures at the meta-, macro-, meso-, and micro- level and a multidimensional guidance concept consisting of competition, dialogue and shared decision-making which integrates the key groups of actors.

Competitiveness of New Industries

Competitiveness of New Industries
Author: Cornelia Storz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134117434

This book, the result of an international research project, comprises a comprehensive comparison of three key countries. Adopting an institutional approach, with top level contributors, it analyzes political factors in conjunction with entrepreneurial ones.

The Right Place

The Right Place
Author: Arturo Bris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2021-07-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000327795

The Right Place explains why firms succeed in one country and fail in another, irrespective of their inner drivers, and suggests potential initiatives that governments can take to help the private sector create jobs and, consequently, make their countries more prosperous. The competitiveness race is not unlike a cycling race. If you want to ride fast, you need three things: a good bike, to be in good shape, and a smooth and fast road. In a collaborative model, you might say the business is the bicycle, the business leader is the cyclist, and the road is the government and the external environment. The responsibility of a government is to design and build the best possible road. It turns out that when the road is good, good cyclists suddenly appear and want to race on it. In this book, competition and macroeconomics expert, Arturo Bris, provides the analysis of country competitive performance based on 30 years advising countries on this topic. The typical mistakes that countries make are revealed and the pillars necessary in building a competitive economy: economic performance as a necessary condition for prosperity; government efficiency, so the public sector can create the conditions for a productive economy; business efficiency, so companies can create jobs; and infrastructure, both tangible and intangible, so businesses and individuals can operate efficiently. With contemporary case studies throughout, the book provides an illuminating read for politicians, business leaders and students of macroeconomics.

Handbook of Research on Driving Industrial Competitiveness With Innovative Design Principles

Handbook of Research on Driving Industrial Competitiveness With Innovative Design Principles
Author: Farinha, Luís
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2020-05-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1799836304

Industry and academia should capture significant value through adopting design-led innovation to improve opportunities for success. Skills and capabilities should serve as a basis for adopting new breakthroughs in design-driven innovation. The development of an infrastructure and centers of excellence with the capacity to respond to new market needs, combined with enhanced networking capabilities, will allow companies to be more innovative and competitive. The Handbook of Research on Driving Industrial Competitiveness With Innovative Design Principles is an essential publication that focuses on the relationship between innovation and competitiveness in business. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics including open innovation, business incubators, and competitiveness dynamics, this book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, government officials, executives, managers, investors, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and students interested in furthering their knowledge of pertinent topics on product design and commercialization, new models for academia-industry partnerships, and regional entrepreneurial ecosystems based on design principles.

The New European Industrial Policy

The New European Industrial Policy
Author: Franco Mosconi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2015-05-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317646134

The years since the global financial crisis have seen something of a renaissance in the manufacturing industry. The United States has launched its Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, and China owes much of its spectacular economic boom in the last decades to its being the 'world's factory'. Is there room for the EU in this landscape? This timely new book explores Europe’s role in this evolving environment. It argues that on the one hand, in terms of sheer numbers, the role of the manufacturing industry in the EU is on a par with other major global economies. However, the book also states that Europe falls short of its global competitors (the USA in particular) in terms of its involvement in the most innovative manufacturing sectors. The volume therefore argues that this creates the opportunity for a new European industrial policy. Exploring the development of current EU policy, the book puts forward suggestions as to how the EU can improve in terms of the competitiveness of its technology policy. Placing the EU’s position in the context of the industrial structures of the USA, Japan and the BRICs, the book blends theoretical models and practical examples in order to offer a the state of the art look at the current and future direction of Europe’s industrial policy. This book will be of relevance to all those with an interest in European economics, industrial economics, public policy, European politics and European studies.

Improving Competitiveness of Industry

Improving Competitiveness of Industry
Author: Harold Bierman
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9814335975

As the twenty-first century begins, the world finds itself with a wide range of possible economic futures. Bankrupt Greece is buying costly submarines and fighter planes. This book intends to suggest several revisions in institutional structure, management techniques and rewards, and a drastic change in how hourly labor is compensated.

Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Development

Competitiveness, Localised Learning and Regional Development
Author: Peter Maskell
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415154284

Drawing on a rich literature and case study material from selected industries, and elaborating on key concepts such as firms and competencies, industries and industrial systems, and competitiveness and prosperity, this book sets out to answer three broad research questions: * What is competition about in today's economy? * Why do geographical areas (local milieus, cities, regions, countries) specialize in particular types of economic activity, and why do patterns of specialization, once in place tend to be so tremendously durable? * How can high-cost regions in general and small industrialized countries in particular sustain competitiveness and prosperity in an increasingly globally integrated world economy? This book points the way out of a dilemma created by recent industrial theory and policy: is it possible for countries which are not destined to be leading high-tech powers to take advantage of the current conjuncture of increasingly open-markets.

Innovation and Global Competitiveness

Innovation and Global Competitiveness
Author: N. S. Siddharthan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-11-16
Genre: Industries
ISBN: 9781138937758

In the post-liberalization period, India has slowly but steadily tried to foster innovation to improve competitive efficiency of Indian manufacturing and thus boost global competitiveness of the industrial sector. Foreign direct investment was looked upon as a major source of technology paradigm shift; in recent times, industrial firms have been investing overseas, even in countries to which they used to export, based on their technological capabilities. This volume comprises empirical contributions on this emerging phenomenon. It was originally published as a special issue of Innovation and Development.