Competition, Competitive Advantage, and Clusters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Competition, Competitive Advantage, and Clusters write by Robert Huggins. This book was released on 2012-09-20. Competition, Competitive Advantage, and Clusters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Harvard professor, Michael Porter has been one of the most influential figures in strategic management research over the last three decades. He infused a rigorous theoretical framework of industrial organization economics with the then still embryonic field of strategic management and elevated it to its current status as an academic discipline. Porter's outstanding career is also characterized by its cross-disciplinary nature. Following his most important work on strategic management, he then made a leap to the policy side and dealt with a completely different set of analytical units. More recently he has made a foray into inner city development, environmental regulations, and health care services. Throughout these explorations Porter has maintained his integrative approach, seeking a road that links management case studies and the general model building of mainstream economics. With expert contributors from a range of disciplines including strategic management, economic development, economic geography, and planning, this book assesses the contribution Michael Porter has made to these respective disciplines. It clarifies the sources of tension and controversy relating to all the major strands of Porter's work, and provides academics, students, and practitioners with a critical guide for the application of Porter's models. The book highlights that while many of the criticisms of Porter's ideas are valid, they are almost an inevitable outcome for a scholar who has sought to build bridges across wide disciplinary valleys. His work has provided others with a set of frameworks to explore in more depth the nature of competition, competitive advantage, and clusters from a range of vantage points.
Regional Competitiveness
Regional Competitiveness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regional Competitiveness write by Ron Martin. This book was released on 2012-11-12. Regional Competitiveness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is now a wide spread interest in regions as a key focus in the organization and governance of economic growth and wealth creation. This important book considers the factors that influence and shape the competitive performance of regions. This is not just an issue of academic interest and debate, but also of increasing policy deliberation and action. However, as the readings in this book make clear, the very idea of regional competitiveness is itself complex and contentious. Many academics and policy makers have used the concept without fully considering what is meant by the term and how it can be measured. Policy formulation has tended to rush ahead of understanding and analysis, and the purpose of this book is to close this important gap in understanding. This book was previously published as a special issue of Regional Studies.
Clusters for Competitiveness
Clusters for Competitiveness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clusters for Competitiveness write by . This book was released on 2009. Clusters for Competitiveness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Clusters of Competitiveness
Clusters of Competitiveness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clusters of Competitiveness write by Raj Nallari. This book was released on 2013-08-28. Clusters of Competitiveness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Competition, competitiveness, innovation and growth are inherently linked. This book covers the main ideas underlying competitiveness and its applications, drawing lessons for developing economies and relevant policy recommendations.
Tourist Clusters, Destinations and Competitiveness
Tourist Clusters, Destinations and Competitiveness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tourist Clusters, Destinations and Competitiveness write by Francesco Capone. This book was released on 2015-12-14. Tourist Clusters, Destinations and Competitiveness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy. Increasingly, research on tourism destinations has been at the centre of debates concerning destination competitiveness, governance, policies and destination management and marketing. This book investigates tourist destinations from two different perspectives. First, it approaches destinations using the concept of tourist clusters and investigates their role in competitiveness and firm performances. The second perspective studies the development of models of competitiveness and governance. It also develops an international benchmarking system of 15-EU countries, with an additional focus on Italy, UK and United States. The book will appeal to academics, scholars and practitioners in tourism studies, management, urban and regional studies and economic geography, etc.
