A Grounded Approach to Identifying National Competitive Advantage
A Preliminary Exploration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4904833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edmund R Thompson (0000-0003-1215-0447, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 631-657 |
| Publication date | 2003-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a35110 |
| OpenAlex | W2072886622 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 94 |
The geography of national competitiveness is now charted annually by international indices. However, quite what such indices measure is uncertain as the concept of competitiveness as applied to economies has no clear or agreed definition among scholars. Still less is there any consensus regarding the factors that contribute to national competitiveness. Notwithstanding, governments have incorporated this vague and ill-measured concept both into policy parlance and into public expenditure plans, suggesting that an objective and practical method for identifying national competitiveness is urgently needed. The author reports an exploratory, inductive, approach to identifying the components of competitive advantage of a specimen economy (Hong Kong), by using data from 127 firms operating within it. An inventory of forty-one firm-suggested advantages of Hong Kong is scored, then exploratory factor analysis is used to derive a statistically and conceptually robust index of ten scales representing components of Hong Kong's competitive advantage. Results point to a new, grounded, approach to identifying competitiveness, not just of nations, but of regions and cities too
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Macroeconomic determinants of growth
Growth Empirics
Democracy and growth
Social Desirability Response Effects
Studying Regions by Studying Firms∗
Lack of method variance in self-reported affect and perceptions at work
Social Desirability Response Bias in Self-Report Choice Situations.
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Economic Growth in a Cross Section of Countries
Self-Reports in Organizational Research
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis
Corruption and Growth
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Competitiveness
Krugmanian Competitiveness
Survey Responses
The Analysis of Covariance Structures
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Geographical Economics and Urban Competitiveness
Regional Competitiveness and the Single Market
Fuzzy Concepts, Scanty Evidence, Policy Distance
The Institutional Framework and Economic Development
U.S. Competitiveness in the World Economy
Competitiveness
Export Market Performance of OECD Countries
Competitiveness of Exports
Competitiveness Policy in the 1990s
International Competitiveness
Discovering Heterogeneity
Who are EU? Ambiguities in the Concept of Competitiveness
Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix
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Vague Theories, Sophisticated Techniques, and Poor Data
Political Regimes and Economic Growth
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Competitiveness
Hong Kong
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2013 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |