| Title |
Quality mode of Lithuanian manufacturing industry’s exports / |
| Authors |
Saboniene, Asta |
| DOI |
10.5755/j01.ee.25.4.6925 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Inžinerinė ekonomika = Engineering economics.. Kaunas : KTU. 2014, vol. 25, iss. 4, p. 450-457.. ISSN 1392-2785. eISSN 2029-5839 |
| Keywords [eng] |
exports ; manufacturing industry ; revealed quality elasticity (RQE) ; factor inputs ; labour skills |
| Abstract [eng] |
The analysis of exports structure by the quality mode lays the foundations to judge about the actual performance of the manufacturing industry and foresee the main trends of exports development in the global market. Moving towards the competition on quality, the knowledge and technology are increasingly becoming the drivers for competitiveness and sustainable growth while the competition on lower costs is facing difficulties due to the rising costs of labour and other resources. The research study examines the structure of Lithuanian origin exports by the quality elasticity, factor inputs and labour skills modes, which characterise the quality peculiarities of exports. The competitiveness of Lithuanian exports is based on employing lower costs rather than on creating quality advantages. Thus, the analysis of the structure of Lithuanian origin exports by commodities sensitivity to price versus sensitivity to quality is a significant research problem facing the tendencies of rising resource and labour costs and losing lower costs advantages. Policy makers monitoring the industrial structure have to focus on the structural upgrading within sectors on the basis of exports quality. The core aim of the research study is to reveal the exports structure by Revealed Quality Elasticity (RQE), Factor inputs and Labour skills of Lithuanian manufacturing industries. The study is intended to analyse the main changes in exports structure aiming to answer the question what shifts have occurred in the long run and how the exports have been affected by economic integration and globalization processes. The relevance of the empirical study is denoted by the lack of the detailed research on the quality of Lithuanian exports as well as the changes in exports quality by different modes. [...]. |
| Published |
Kaunas : KTU |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2014 |
| CC license |
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