Competitiveness Review: Volume 30 Issue 3

The fit of competitive strategies and firm-specific advantages with country-specific advantages in explaining manufacturing location choices

Murat Akpinar

This paper aims to clarify the fit of competitive strategies and firm-specific advantages (FSAs) with country-specific advantages (CSAs) in explaining manufacturing location…

Persistence of profitability in top firms: does it vary across sectors?

Parneet Kaur Bhangu

The purpose of this paper is to analyze variations in the degree of persistence of profitability across diverse economic sectors and industry groups over the time period of…

Digital transformation priorities of India’s discrete manufacturing SMEs – a conceptual study in perspective of Industry 4.0

Gautam Dutta, Ravinder Kumar, Rahul Sindhwani, Rajesh Kumar Singh

Manufacturing excellence is critical to our nation’s economy. Indian Government’s National Manufacturing Policy, drafted in 2011, is being revamped to include the aspects of…

How competitiveness factors propel SMEs to achieve competitive advantage?

Shirzad Farhikhteh, Ali Kazemi, Arash Shahin, Majid Mohammad Shafiee

This paper aims to assess the contribution of competitiveness factors in how small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) would access competitive advantage (CA) by focussing on…

Analysis of competitiveness in Colombian family businesses

Jorge Moreno-Gómez, Esteban Lafuente

Building on the resource-based view and the configuration theory, the purpose of this study uses a systemic and multidimensional competitiveness index (CI) i.e. that incorporates…

International connectivity in the generation of information and communication technology (ICT) in Spain

Lisset Medina, Marcelo Cano-Kollmann, Isabel Alvarez

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of knowledge creation in a key technology field, i.e. information and communication technology (ICT), to determine…