... service investments and enhancing Spain’s competitiveness within the global services landscape. Design/methodology/approach The analysis uses a new quarterly data set (1996–2023) combining firm-level FDI declarations with macroeconomic indicators. A ridge-regularized log–log regression framework...

...Esteban Lafuente; Yancy Vaillant Purpose This study aims to contrast the disparities in optimal competitiveness configurations across international economies. Additionally, we analyse the competitive efficiency across firms of different performance endowments to identify distinctions and determine...

... Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Environmental impact Competitiveness Emerging economies Transport operations The formation of transportation systems in Eurasia are stimulated by the development of production, world trade of the goods...

...Miroslav Koncõina © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Organizational restructuring Privatization Business strategy Competitiveness Investment The relation between strategic orientations and real opportunities for the Slovenian economy after the post-socialist transition period...

... market, which in turn relies upon spreading electronic commerce throughout the EU’s socio‐economic body. However, agreement in this key area has been slow to emerge, restrained in part by cultural factors in the EU. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Competitiveness Information Information technology...

... in Europe, SIMAP, is discussed and compared to similar systems in the USA. The paper suggests that a new legislative framework is required for public procurement and electronic commerce in Europe to ensure that governments and businesses do not suffer a competitive disadvantage in the electronic future...

... competitive marketplace. SMEs are not exempt from this pressure and Drihlon and Estime (1993) argue that improving competitiveness is now an imperative for small and large businesses alike. To survive and prosper into the twenty‐first century all businesses need to exert conscious and sustained effort...

.... The upbeat attitude of senior management is under‐standable. The above case demonstrates that a company can achieve competitiveness from an uncompetitive basis but that the process is long and has to be viewed as a “whole” with the creation of an innovation and improvement‐driven culture as the “end...

... Competitiveness Infrastructure Location EUROPEAN BUSINESS REVIEW The Channel Tunnel and Transport Issues Marie McHugh, Eddie McAleer, Kate Greenan and Patrick McNamee INTRODUCTION The completion of the Single European Market together with the opening of the Channel Tunnel potentially represents a major...

...Heinz Weihrich Reviews the strategic position of Daimler‐Benz in the light of its move from automotive to integrated transporting company, defence contractor and consumer appliances manufacturer. Focuses particularly on the Mercedes‐Benz arm, now facing fierce competition from Japanese carmakers...

... will 27 EUROPEAN BUSINESS REVIEW mean that public purchasing reflects fair competition, not national preference. It will mean more opportunities for you as businessmen to compete for contracts on the continent, which will be openly advertised. It will mean better value for money for the taxpayer. We have...

... manufacturers in Europe can reorganise themselves to optimise competitiveness. © MCB UP Limited 1989 European Union Manufacturing Competitiveness Operations management Strategy EBR Volume '89 Number 2 EUROPEAN OPERATIONS STRATEGIES FOR THE 1990s by Keith Oliver Only recently, and not without...