Title Проблемы оценки конкурентоспособности регионов /
Translation of Title Problems of Assessment of Regional Competitiveness.
Authors Bruneckienė, Jurgita ; Simanavičienė, Žaneta ; Dapkus, Mindaugas
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Is Part of Ekonomika ir vadyba: aktualijos ir perspektyvos.. Šiauliai : Šiaulių universiteto leidykla. 2008, Nr. 4(13), p. 48-59.. ISSN 1648-9098
Keywords [eng] Regional Competitiveness ; Assessment of regional competitiveness
Abstract [eng] The concept of competitiveness has always been a subject of a great interest for researches, politicians and people, involved in practical business. Initially, the notion of competitiveness was related to firm, i.e., micro-economic level. The competitiveness at macro-economic level was analyzed for the first time by M. Porter, who in 1990 has extended and applied his model of the competitive advantage of firms to the competitive advantage of nations, regions and places or “locations” generally. Due to the process of globalization, the concept of national and regional competitiveness has attracted a lot of attention and increasingly been adopted as a policy tool. The necessity of proper analysis of the regional competitiveness concept brings the recognition, that the drivers of national competitiveness have become more local and the regions increasingly become the engines of the global economy, as the globalization blurs national borders. The regionalization of public policies moves the economic coordination and steering functions from the national state up to the international and down to regional level. The compelling reason for focusing on the competitiveness of regions lies also in the changing patterns of private investment flows. Privatized companies, institutional investors and various investment funds are being forced to diversity their portfolios and to put substantial amounts of money in property – geographically dispersed over unfamiliar territories. As researches... [to full text].
Published Šiauliai : Šiaulių universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language Russian
Publication date 2008