[PDF] The Competitive Advantage Of Greece eBook

Author : Ioannis Konsolas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351757288

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This title was first published in 2002: This compelling text is the first major application of Michael Porter's diamond framework to identify the sources of national competitive advantage in the case of Greece. Offering a useful evaluation of Porter's theory through an extensive literature review, the book also draws on empirical evidence from five selected Greek industries. It also provides information and commentary on many aspects of the Greek economy, its historical evolution and its current trends. International and Greek investors, international organizations, business consultants and financial institutions will certainly benefit from this analysis of the Greek economic environment. Moreover, universities and researchers will be interested in the evidence supporting or refuting parts of the widely used and cited "diamond" framework.

Author : Pantelis Sklias
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3642345344

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The Greek economic crisis has imperilled the stability of the eurozone, generating much global anxiety. Policymakers, analysts, and the media have daily debated the course of the Greek economy, prescribing ways to move forward. This collection of essays progressively moves from an analysis of the causes of the crisis and the policy responses so far to a debate on some of the countryʼs advantages and capabilities that should underpin its new development model and propel the return to growth. The book analytically chooses to view the glass as half-full and seeks to provide motivation and inspiration for change by indicating some of the economic sectors where Greece maintains a comparative advantage. Therefore, it challenges the emerging picture of Greece as a country doomed to failure, where everything falls apart.

Author : Pantelis Sklias
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783642345357

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The Greek economic crisis has imperilled the stability of the eurozone, generating much global anxiety. Policymakers, analysts, and the media have daily debated the course of the Greek economy, prescribing ways to move forward. This collection of essays progressively moves from an analysis of the causes of the crisis and the policy responses so far to a debate on some of the countryʼs advantages and capabilities that should underpin its new development model and propel the return to growth. The book analytically chooses to view the glass as half-full and seeks to provide motivation and inspiration for change by indicating some of the economic sectors where Greece maintains a comparative advantage. Therefore, it challenges the emerging picture of Greece as a country doomed to failure, where everything falls apart.

Author : Charalampos Chrysomallidis
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2010-08
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ISBN : 9783838391854

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International bodies, supranational and national entities have laid emphasis on research, technology and innovation already since mid-1990s, in order to enforce growth potential. On the contrary, in Greece, state intervention in research and technology had not served strategic, growth goals, even as part of industrial policy.This was considered to be a serious differentiation between the greek practice and that of other E.U. member states that intended to increase their competitive advantage via investment in well-educated human capital, raised productivity rates and products of high added value. This work analyses the application of the knowledge-based model of growth in Greece, focusing on national research policy s structure and failures, examining its inefficiencies.

Author : William Lazonick
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674154162

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William Lazonick explores how technological change has interacted with the organization of work, with major consequences for national competitiveness and industrial leadership. Looking at Britain, the United States, and Japan from the nineteenth century to the present, he explains changes in their status as industrial superpowers. Lazonick stresses the importance for industrial leadership of cooperative relations between employers and shop-floor workers. Such relations permit employers to use new technologies to their maximum potential, which in turn transforms the high fixed costs inherent in these technologies into low unit costs and large market shares. Cooperative relations can also lead employers to invest in the skills of workers themselves--skills that enable shop-floor workers to influence quality as well as quantity of production. To build cooperative shop-floor relations, successful employers have been willing to pay workers higher wages than they could have secured elsewhere in the economy. They have also been willing to offer workers long-term employment security. These policies, Lazonick argues, have not come at the expense of profits but rather have been a precondition for making profits. Focusing particularly on the role of labor-management relations in fostering "flexible mass production" in Japan since the 1950s, Lazonick criticizes those economists and politicians who, in the face of the Japanese challenge, would rely on free markets alone to restore the international competitiveness of industry in Britain and the United States.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464814414

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Seventeen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2020 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity.

Author : R. Prouska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 2011-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230306535

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A comprehensive picture of the Greek business system and management practices placed in a comparative context. The editors bring together knowledge from contemporary research in a comprehensive, analytical and comparative way that enables readers to see the Greek system in a holistic way.

Author : Josiah Ober
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0691173141

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A major new history of classical Greece—how it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from it Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Middle-class spending drove sustained economic growth and classical wealth produced a stunning cultural efflorescence lasting hundreds of years. Why did Greece reach such heights in the classical period—and why only then? And how, after "the Greek miracle" had endured for centuries, did the Macedonians defeat the Greeks, seemingly bringing an end to their glory? Drawing on a massive body of newly available data and employing novel approaches to evidence, Josiah Ober offers a major new history of classical Greece and an unprecedented account of its rise and fall. Ober argues that Greece's rise was no miracle but rather the result of political breakthroughs and economic development. The extraordinary emergence of citizen-centered city-states transformed Greece into a society that defeated the mighty Persian Empire. Yet Philip and Alexander of Macedon were able to beat the Greeks in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BCE, a victory made possible by the Macedonians' appropriation of Greek innovations. After Alexander's death, battle-hardened warlords fought ruthlessly over the remnants of his empire. But Greek cities remained populous and wealthy, their economy and culture surviving to be passed on to the Romans—and to us. A compelling narrative filled with uncanny modern parallels, this is a book for anyone interested in how great civilizations are born and die. This book is based on evidence available on a new interactive website. To learn more, please visit: http://polis.stanford.edu/.

Author : Matthew Kwaw Somiah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2021-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000399605

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This book takes a pragmatic approach to develop the competitive advantage of indigenous construction firms in the Global South, using Ghana as a case study. It provides readers with two major practical insights. The first focuses on the theoretical underpinning of firms’ competitive advantage and develops a competitive advantage model for indigenous construction firms. This competitive advantage conceptual framework aids in explaining the main and sub-attributes underpinning the competitive advantage of indigenous construction firms as well as providing the basis for assessing a firm’s competitiveness. Secondly, it highlights and addresses theoretical gaps in existing competitive advantage studies deemed essential for indigenous construction firms. Finally, a detailed two-stage Delphi study in the Ghanaian construction industry is presented as a case study. The book is therefore of interest to researchers in construction management, strategic management, civil engineering, business administration, marketing, entrepreneurial and economic studies. It is an essential manual for owners and managers of construction businesses. It is also useful for government departments and non-governmental agencies seeking innovative ways to develop the capacity of indigenous firms and/or contractors to make them more responsive to competitive bidding scenarios, delivery of projects, and satisfying the needs of the industry’s stakeholders.