14,398 research outputs found

    Book review: STRATEGIES OF INCRESING THE COMPETITIVENESS BASED ON COSTS ANALYSIS

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    Although the strategies of increasing the competiveness, based on costs analysis, represent a subject which is frequently approachable by economists over different complexity levels...strategies, competiveness, cost

    Employment as a factor increasing the population well-being in a social market economy

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    The paper infers competiveness of a national economy in connection with the country’s capacity to provide sufficient and sustainable employment. The author argues the importance of reverse link that goes from sustainable employment and well-being in a country to competiveness of national economy. It is concluded that active social policy is important tool in providing impulses to competitiveness of economy,Competitiveness, employment, life quality, social policy, profits, welfare., Labor and Human Capital, H30, I38,

    Identifying Opportunities to Improve Competitiveness through Innovation Illustrated on the Example of Hungary

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    Due to the economic downturn there is an increased need for companies and economies to outperform their competitors and gain sustainable competitive adventage. However, competiveness is a complex concept. There are a number of definitions and methodologies available to define and measure competitiveness. This study examines the data of a widely referred competitiveness report issued by the World Economic Forum annually. The analysis focuses on how innovation contribute to the overall competitiveness, what are the direct and indirect influencing factors of in novation and how the overall competitiveness may be improved through improving the innovation related indicators. The process is illustrated on the example of Hungary in the context of its’ EU and regional competitive position, with the purpose to identify areas of opportunities to improve national competiveness through innovation

    Cash Rules Everything Around Me (C.R.E.A.M): The Balancing Act of Competition and Revenue in a Collegiate Athletic Department

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    Competiveness within a culture is often discussed as an important factor to the degree that knowledge is shared within an organization. In this paper, I consider the influence of the degree of competitiveness of such organizational cultures on knowledge sharing, a crucial process in knowledge management, and on how competiveness affects team-to-team relationships in the athletic department. Through my research, I wanted to find out: To what degree does the competitiveness of an organization’s culture play on the way knowledge is shared in that organization, and what methods are used inside an athletic department for creating a culture that promotes openness and success? In doing this, I sat interviewed multiple members of an athletic department and documented their meetings. Results showed competiveness to not be helpful in a department more geared towards competiveness with other institutions. Knowledge sharing is too important in this industry and stakeholders rely too much on the department for competiveness to interfere with an open culture

    China, India and the future of the global economy

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    In the first part of the paper an overview of the long-term global economic growth forecasts is presented (e.g., forecasts of Uri Dadush and Bennett Stancil of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a report by HSBC, CitiGroup report, reports of PricewaterhouseCoopers, or Goldman Sachs reports). In this context, the diversified views and opinions on future economic development of China and India (currently considered as the fastest-growing major economies in the world) are presented. In the second part of the article, an extrapolative forecast of global GDP and an estimation of the economies of China and India in global production by 2050 based on the so-called evolutionary model of competition is outlined. The evolutionary model of competition enables to estimate the competitiveness of national economies, therefore in the second part of the paper we presents also the results of estimation of the competitiveness of the economies of India and China after World War II. One aim of that research is to compare the competitiveness of China and India with the leaders of economic development in the twentieth century, namely the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Japan and the European Union. The summary of these considerations are estimations the shares of GDP of China and India in the global product based on global scenarios of the competitiveness changes of these economies over the next 40 years.future studies; forecasting; globalization; economic growth

    Business intelligence gap analysis: a user, supplier and academic perspective

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    Business intelligence (BI) takes many different forms, as indicated by the varying definitions of BI that can be found in industry and academia. These different definitions help us understand of what BI issues are important to the main players in the field of BI; users, suppliers and academics. The goal of this research is to discover gaps and trends from the standpoints of BI users, BI suppliers and academics, and to examine their effects on business and academia. Consultants also play an important role since they can be seen as the link between users and suppliers. Two research methods are combined to accomplish this goal. We examine the BI focus of users and suppliers through a survey, and we gain insight to the BI focus of academics, vendor-neutral consultants (typical representatives like Forrester, Gartner and IDC) and vendor- specific consultants (typical representatives like IBM, Information builders, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP) through their publications. Previous studies indicate that similar article analyses often focus on academic research methods only. That means that the results so far often reveal the academic perspective. Unlike these previous studies, the perspective of this research is not limited to academics. Our results provide insight of the BI trends and BI issue ranking of BI users, suppliers, academics, vendors neutral consultants and vendor specific consultant

    Competitiveness pact: flawed economies? CEPS Commentary, 18 March 2011

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    The economic philosophy behind the Competitiveness Pact now before the European Council can be summarized by two hypotheses: 1. If we fix (relative?) wages, no external imbalances can arise since relative costs determine export performance. 2. Higher productivity always means more ‘competitiveness’, and is thus always useful to reduce divergences. On first sight, this Commentary finds that both theses seem to make sense, but on closer inspection, neither corresponds to reality

    GLOBAL PERFORMANCE AND THE COMPANY

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    Global performance represents a major objective of any company as they are a consequence of both the influence of economic, cultural,political, judiciary factors, and of the human agent, of human resources in general and of human resources with creative potential in particular. Hence, the need to conceive and approach the global performance of the company as a system.performance, productive model, global performance, emerging production systems

    Geographical interdependence, international trade and economic dynamics: the Chinese and German solar energy industries

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    The trajectories of the German and Chinese photovoltaic industries differ significantly yet are strongly interdependent. Germany has seen a rapid growth in market demand and a strong increase in production, especially in the less developed eastern half of the country. Chinese growth has been export driven. These contrasting trajectories reflect the roles of market creation, investment and credit and the drivers of innovation and competitiveness. Consequent differences in competiveness have generated major trade disputes
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