Competitiveness Review: Volume 29 Issue 4

An integrated model of destination sustainable competitiveness

Zahra Nadalipour, Mohammad Hossein Imani Khoshkhoo, Abdolreza Roknoddin Eftekhari

This study aims at developing a framework to investigate and analyze sustainable competitiveness in tourism destinations.

Understanding national innovation system (NIS) using porter’s diamond model (PDM) of competitiveness in ASEAN-05

Munshi Afzal, Roger Lawrey, Jhalak Gope

The purpose this study is to investigate national innovation systems (NIS) using Porter’s Diamond model (PDM) by examining the five founding member nations of the Association of…

Management practices and small firms’ productivity in emerging countries

Juan Carlos Salazar-Elena, José Guimón

The purpose of this study is to explore the potential for increasing the productivity of small firms from emerging countries by enhancing their management practices.

Determinants of firm’s propensity to patent its inventions: An evidence from Bengaluru high-tech manufacturing cluster

Deepak Chandrashekar, Bala Subrahmanya M.H.

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the factors that influence the decision of a firm in a cluster to patent its inventions.

Cluster identification: A joint application of industry concentration analysis and exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA)

Reinaldo Belickas Manzini, Di Serio Carlos Luiz

This paper aims to contribute to the approaches based on traditional industry concentration statistics for identifying clusters by complementing them with the techniques of…

Indexing innovation within China

David McHardy Reid, Guotai Chi, Zhi Chong Zhao, Ilan Alon

Performed over a five-year time horizon, this paper aims to analyze the progression rates of technological innovation across 15 sub-provincial Chinese cities. The authors quantify…

The relationship between management characteristics and firm performance

Mahdi Salehi, Samaneh Mohammadi Moghadam

This study aims to investigate the relationship between management characteristics including management capability, management entrenchment, agency costs and overconfidence and…

Revealed comparative advantage for US textiles and apparel

Zahra Saki, Marguerite Moore, Ivan Kandilov, Lori Rothenberg, A. Blanton Godfrey

The purpose of this study is to identify US textile and apparel (TAP) products and categories that demonstrate export comparative advantage and their respective country…