The use of the concept of competitiveness have got epidemic force, especially in the world of bus... more The use of the concept of competitiveness have got epidemic force, especially in the world of business, with the growth of the internationalization and opening of new markets. More recently, with the consolidation of the investment and production global operations, more the first that the last, this term has been transferred to denominate countries and regions, generating great controversy and conceptual conflicts. In the business world, traditionally, a firm is considered competitive when "it presents good sales of products/services", or when "it gets successful on the market share". However, a company with profits ends, except in some cases and very occasionally has the same concerns and priorities of a nation, region, municipality or any other nonprofit public organization and governance ends. A crash point is the vision of the employment. Typically the firms see the employment as an input to the production, while the government, as a result of the economical growth In this article we present some inconsistencies and dichotomies behind the concept, detaching the lack of equivalence between the managerial sphere and the regional and countries ambit. Additionally, we present the levels of analysis and more relevant factors in the determination of the industrial competitiveness and propose an approach for the analysis of the competitiveness of the local development point of view, when the concept assumes a more endogenous dimension. In this case, factors as equity, sustainable growth, employment and income generation necessarily must be considered.
The use of the concept of competitiveness have got epidemic force, especially in the world of bus... more The use of the concept of competitiveness have got epidemic force, especially in the world of business, with the growth of the internationalization and opening of new markets. More recently, with the consolidation of the investment and production global operations, more the first that the last, this term has been transferred to denominate countries and regions, generating great controversy and conceptual conflicts. In the business world, traditionally, a firm is considered competitive when "it presents good sales of products/services", or when "it gets successful on the market share". However, a company with profits ends, except in some cases and very occasionally has the same concerns and priorities of a nation, region, municipality or any other nonprofit public organization and governance ends. A crash point is the vision of the employment. Typically the firms see the employment as an input to the production, while the government, as a result of the economical growth In this article we present some inconsistencies and dichotomies behind the concept, detaching the lack of equivalence between the managerial sphere and the regional and countries ambit. Additionally, we present the levels of analysis and more relevant factors in the determination of the industrial competitiveness and propose an approach for the analysis of the competitiveness of the local development point of view, when the concept assumes a more endogenous dimension. In this case, factors as equity, sustainable growth, employment and income generation necessarily must be considered.
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