PRODUCTIVITY AND COMPETITIVENESS - AN ANALYSIS

E-Business Implications for Productivity and Competitiveness

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) affects to a great extent the output and productivity growth. Evidence suggests that investment growth in ICT has rapidly accelerated the TFP (total factor productivity) growth within the European Union. Such progress is particularly essential for the sectors which themselves produce new technology, but it is dispersing to other sectors, as well. N...

Competitiveness, Innovation and Productivity: Clearing Up The Confusion

Benchmarking the performance of Chinese airlines: An investigation of productivity, yield and cost competitiveness

In the past decade, the Chinese airline industry experienced extraordinary growth in size and profitability. However, no quantitative study has investigated the performance of Chinese airlines in terms of productivity and cost competitiveness. This study investigates the leading Chinese airlines’ productivity, yield, cost competitiveness and input prices, and benchmarks them against major airli...

Productivity Performance and International Competitiveness: A New Test of an Old Theory

The paper uses a modern adaptation of the Ricardian model which incorporates monopolistic competition and multiple factors to derive a MacDougall-type relation between a country’s international competitiveness at the industry level and its productivity performance. This relation is implemented empirically for Canada and the United States, using panel data for 25 years and 40 industries. A key f...

An Explnation of Entrepreneurship Drivers and Rural Competitiveness Functions

Entrepreneurship and competitiveness are inevitable for the dynamism and dynamism of the space in the age of globalization. This issue  is very important in rural areas. Rural Entrepreneurship and competitiveness - Considering the importance of cities as the focal points of development and evolution of space in the era of globalization -are considered as an effective solution to prevent stagnat...