Assessing the sources of competitiveness of the US states Available to Purchase

Murat Akpinar earned his PhD in International Business at Turku University, Turku School of Economics in Finland. He is the Academic Coordinator for the master degree program in entrepreneurship and business competence at JAMK University of Applied Sciences. He is a member of Michael Porter’s Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) network at Harvard Business School.

Özge Can received her PhD in Management from Sabanci University, School of Management, Turkey. She has been working as an Assistant Professor at Yasar University, Department of Business Administration, since 2013. She also took part in the Antwerp Centre of Evolutionary Demography (ACED) at University of Antwerp, Belgium, as a post-doctoral fellow. Her research interests include institutional entrepreneurship, cluster building, emergence and evolution of industries, identity-based categorizations of organizations and collective market making.

Melike Mermercioglu is a Senior Lecturer at the Graduate School of Management, Koc University, Turkey. She teaches global strategy, project management and microeconomics of competitiveness courses at the university and acts as the academic coordinator of various projects in companies. Before joining the university, she worked as a Senior Consultant for leading companies of Turkey and has led projects in many sectors – both public and private – on strategic management, organizational restructuring, redesign of operational systems and processes, total quality and quality assurance systems, management information and human resources systems.