The Condition of Fostering Core Competitiveness of Equipment Manufacture Industry in Our Country

The equipment manufacture industry occupies the important position in our national economy, and the research on its core competitiveness is an important aspect of protecting the healthy development of equipment manufacture industry. Researches on core competitiveness of equipment manufacture industry are to cultivate, strengthen and perfect enterprise＇s core competitiveness and bring about the advance to enterprise.     

The Impact of the Corporate Social Responsibility on China Textile ＆ Apparel＇s Competitiveness

This paper introduces the situation and the comparative advantage of Chinese textile ＆ apparel industry. The negative impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Chinese textile ＆ apparel＇s competitiveness is that it will alter corporation＇s pricing strategies and lack of green competitiveness. The positive impact is that it will uphold enterprise competitiveness and upgrade enterprise strategy resilience. Chinese textile and apparel should mix CSR strategy into enterprise production, management, employees＇ training as well as the marketing in order to improve its competitiveness.     

Capability Innovation and Competitiveness

A firm can be thought as the combination of a series of capabilities. Some key capabilities owned by a firm are untradable, unimitable and unsubstitutable. These capabilities are considered to be the core capabilities. The core capabilities determine the firm＇s comparable competitive advantages. The continuous capability inrtovation can further strengthen the firm＇s competitiveness. Resources are the foundation of the capabilities. The foundation of capability innovation depends on the investment and restructuring of resources. The core products are the carders to the firm＇s core capabilities and other capabilities to satisfy the market＇s needs. The core products are the core components of the end products. The market share of the core products is more important to a firm.     

Intemational Competitiveness of Export-oriented Industries in Bulgaria

With increasing globalization and Bulgaria＇s accession into the European Union （EU）, the question how to improve the country＇s international competitiveness has become very important and urgent. The aim of the paper is to present the results of a research on the past decade＇s competitiveness of Bulgarian export-oriented sectors, enjoying good positions in local and international markets and having a high development potential. The first part of the article presents a comprehensive review of the concept of competitiveness--its definitions, factors, and measurements at national, industry, and firm level. On the basis of the theoretical considerations, an empirical analysis on the current state of competitiveness of the selected export-oriented industries is performed. These include metallurgy, machine building, chemicals, clothing and textiles, furniture, wine production, tobacco, and food processing. The research answers the following questions： What are the major competitive advantages of Bulgarian export-oriented industries on the world market？ What are their disadvantages？ How did they change over the period 2002-2012, and what steps should be taken to meet the challenges？ The employed methods of analysis are both quantitative--calculating various production, trade, and price indices, and qualitative--carrying out a survey among top managers of firms operating in the selected industries across all the regions of the country. Results show that the country＇s competitiveness on international level has gradually improved but still remains at a comparatively low level as Bulgarian producers compete mostly on the price, invest very little in research and development （R＆D）, rely on low labor costs, and produce goods with low added value. The paper looks into the specific challenges to competitiveness faced by different sectors and the implications of addressing them. In conclusion, it puts forward some recommendations for boosting Bulgaria＇s international competitiveness which are aimed at key stakeholders： companies, central and local government, and institutions promoting cooperation.     

Strategic thinking on improving the environmental competitiveness of Chinese enterprises

Environmental competitiveness, price competitiveness and non-price competitiveness make up the undivided vital part of product＇s competitiveness. Environmental competitiveness can not only help improve the enterprise＇s key competitiveness directly, but also strengthen it indirectly by improving the products＇ price competitiveness and non-price competitiveness effectively. Instead of being confined to the product itself, there are several element＇s that can determine and influence the product＇s environmental competitiveness, including the manufacturing process, the management of enterprise＆the life circle of the products, etc. Measuring these elements by setting “environmental suitable degree ”, and building up the echelon model to evaluate the environmental competitiveness can help us see about the standard of the enterprises＇ environmental competitiveness. Though many of the national enterprises have price competitiveness to some extend, restricted by all kinds of elements like systems, techniques, policy, the enterprises are weak in environmental competitiveness. Beginning with systems redesign, carrying out the sustainable development, strengthening inner enterprises management, making more efforts on technique innovation, and widely publicizing and teaching the ecological concept, Chinese national enterprises can improve their environmental competitiveness and improve their key competitiveness.     

The contribution of resources and capabilities to the competitiveness： The case of Port of Sines

The main objective of this paper is to analyse the competitiveness of the main maritime Port sited in Portugal - Port of Sines. This paper is developed under the resource-based view approach. A literature review about the resource-based view is presented with a special highlight on the contribution of organisation owns＇ resources to the competitiveness. With this study we intend to emphasize the applicability of a management theory to a different type of organisation which only recently starts to be preoccupied with its competitiveness. A case study methodology is used in order to collect all information needed about its main resources and capabilities of Port and also its competitiveness. The resources analysed in this paper are： The infrastructures, the accessibilities, the Port operations and also the information systems used on it. Also, a set of performance data is analysed as the main indicators of competitiveness. After that, a conceptual model is presented in order to systematise the main resources and capabilities under which the competitiveness of the Port of Sines is built on.     

Analysis of competitiveness of Gannan navel orange characteristic industrial cluster

The competitiveness of navel orange characteristic industrial cluster lies in three aspects. First is the competitiveness of specific resources. The second is the competitiveness of market. The third is the competitiveness of manpower, organization and system background .An evaluation model on competitiveness of navel orange characteristic industry cluster is established with AHP in this article. The conclusion is that the competitive essence of navel orange characteristic industry cluster refers to the quality of the soil, the climate, the geographical position and the transportation condition which the cluster has. Compared with the navel orange characteristic industry clusters in western developed countries, especially in USA, the disparity of competitiveness of Gannan navel orange characteristic industrial cluster （GNOCIC for short） is obvious from a global perspective. Compared with the navel orange characteristic industry competitive advantage of GNOCIC is extremely obvious. clusters in Three Gorges, and Sichuan Province, the competitive advantage of GNOCIC is extremely obvious.     

The Latvian Road to the Euro

The article presents the situation in Latvia ahead of the country＇s adoption of the euro by offering an analysis of the extent to which the country is prepared for the move and of general economic difficulties as well as indicating possible threats to its future development. The article talks about difficulties caused by the great unemployment connected with the specific economy of the country, political problems of the post-socialistic multinational country and steps done towards the fulfilling of all the convergence criteria. Its aim is to present the moments around the change of the currency which is done by the material＇s analysis because there are not enough statistical data for the mathematical analysis. It can be concluded that the adoption of the euro will probably be beneficial in the long run for Latvia＇s economy. The conclusions may be done by comparison with the situation of Estonia and its foreign trade with Poland which is shown in the article because there are a lot of similarities between the two Baltic countries.     

City Management： an Institutional Perspective

Institutional arrangement, which is one of the basic components of social development strategy on municipal economy, follows the strategic target of city development and is an important way to support it. Material resources and administrative components are the indispensable two wings to form competitiveness. The city economic expansion and urbanization of China nowadays speed up the growth of the city innovation system. The city management provides practical development platform for the city＇s fast development. However, serious challenges also appear in many fields of the city in our country. Especially the shortage of institution caused the higher cost of the city economy and social development, and even the massive losses that cannot be compensated.     

Empirical Analysis on Company＇s Competitiveness from Financial Index

Taking the enterprise survival ability and the development ability as a basis, this paper constructs the financial appraisal index system of enterprise competitiveness. Also, it draws the overall impression of the enterprise competitiveness through selecting listed f＇u＇ms＇ financial index of the equipment manufacturing industry, with the aid of factor analysis model, using the principal components analytic method, making rotation of varimax, and arranging the synthesizes enterprise competitiveness from the financial angle. After the empirical analysis, the paper completes appraisal and analysis which based on company＇s competitiveness from financial index.     

浙江包装产业集群升级与政府路径

产业集群对区域经济发展和提升区域经济竞争力起着重要的作用.本文运用产业集群理论,分析了浙江包装产业集群的现状,针对产业集群升级过程中存在的问题,从政府的角度就如何培育产业集群的持续创新优势提出一些针对性的建议.     

产业集群知识竞争力的六个要素

本文认为,现代产业集群的本质在于创新,而知识竞争力是创新的外在表现。产业集群竞争力的本质特征为其知识竞争力,并根据产业集群知识生产机制分析了产业集群知识竞争力的6种构成要素和知识竞争力模型。     

论区域产业竞争力

文章深入分析了区位、人口、经济、技术、自然、政策和创新等因素对区域产业竞争力的影响作用，提出了区域产业竞争力的因素制约性、部门结构与空间结构的区域统一性、多样性、开放性和综合性等特征。最后，指出了区域产业竞争力的研究途径。     

创新型产业集群与政策资源依赖关系研究

政府通过创新平台投入大量政策资源刺激创新,以提升产业集群竞争力。在该发展模式下,产业集群竞争力提升后,集群会更加依赖政策资源还是能够摆脱对政策资源的依赖？以资源依赖理论为基础,将产业集群竞争力分为创新竞争力、规模竞争力和市场竞争力,探讨创新型产业集群竞争力与政策资源依赖之间的关系。以109个创新型产业集群为研究对象,首先采用DEA三阶段分析法,对政策资源依赖进行量化;其次,运用主成分分析法对规模竞争力、创新竞争力和市场竞争力进行量化分析;最后,通过回归分析探究创新型产业集群规模竞争力、创新竞争力、市场竞争力与政策资源依赖之间的关系。结果表明,创新型产业集群创新竞争力、规模竞争力和市场竞争力与政策资源依赖的关系特征存在差异,且受地域和行业影响。具体地,创新型产业集群规模竞争力与政策资源依赖的相关关系十分显著,创新竞争力与政策资源依赖的相关性不显著,市场竞争力在部分地区、行业与政策资源依赖存在显著相关关系。研究结论对于制定合理的创新型产业集群培育政策、推进高端制造业发展具有借鉴意义。     

区域产业集聚的判别及其竞争力测度研究——以云南省为例

在经济发展转型时期,产业集聚的判别及其竞争力的规范性框架研究对提升企业竞争力、区域竞争力和国家竞争力起着重要作用。以云南省为例,通过比较分析产业贡献率和主要行业的空间聚集程度,判断出云南省产业聚集最有可能产生于工业行业,随后基于GEM模型量化的三级(共23个指标)工业产业聚集竞争力评价指标体系,得出提高云南省工业集群竞争力就要加强基础设施建设和市场开放度的结论,为云南省工业产业聚集科学统筹发展提供政策支撑。     

集群中小企业发展的关键

在激烈的市场竞争中，单个中小企业在经营中困难重重。集群这种企业间组织新形式，可以发挥我国众多中小企业的优势，在不牺牲经营柔性的前提下，实现规模经济，降低经营成本。     

基于熵权TOPSIS的重庆汽车产业集群国际竞争力研究

近年来,重庆汽车产业集群发展迅速,但相比之下,其国际竞争力还有待提高。通过构建汽车产业集群国际竞争力的评价体系,运用熵权TOPSIS方法对重庆、长三角、珠三角、东北、京津、华中和德国斯图加特七个汽车产业集群的国际竞争力进行单层次和综合层次的评价。结果表明：重庆汽车产业集群存在技术创新能力、市场开拓能力、产业生产能力、产业集群能力、产业发展环境等方面的差距和问题,这正是提升其国际竞争力的努力方向。     

基于资源基础理论的产业集群竞争优势分析

对产业集群的研究大多只认识到集群对企业的资源共享优势,忽视了资源在竞争优势形成过程中的作用。应从资源基础论的角度探讨产业集群给企业带来的竞争优势及其来源与作用机制,且这些优势是集群外企业所难以模仿的。     

论产业集群竞争力的内涵和性质

产业集群竞争力的定义落脚到竞争优势,是因为竞争优势能概括产业集群竞争力的“因素”、“结构”和“能力”三个属性,而且最根本的是产业集群较强的竞争力在于其所拥有的持续竞争优势。产业集群竞争力并不同于群内企业竞争力的简单加总,也不同于区域产业竞争力,产业集群竞争力是一种自组织力、耦合力、协作力、创新力和品牌力。     

基于基础-企业-市场模型的寿光蔬菜产业集群资源因素分析

农业产业集群是现代农业发展的重要方向,已经成为提高农业竞争力、增强农业发展优势的重要途径。文章以寿光蔬菜产业集群为例,从基础-企业-市场(GEM)模型的6个因素来分析农业产业集群的形成和竞争优势,探寻农业产业集群发展的规律,进而提高其竞争力,以利于农业产业集群的健康发展。