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Regional Competitiveness: Theories and Methodologies for Empirical Analysis
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUM, 2013)
A significant forum of scholarly and practitioner-based research has developed in recent years that has sought both to theorize upon and empirically measure the competitiveness of regions. However, the disparate and ...
Competitiveness Among Higher Education Institutions: A Two-Stage Cobb-Douglas Model for Efficiency Measurement of Schools of Business
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUM, 2014)
In this paper, we present a methodology for evaluating competing organizations in order to identify best practices among those organizations. We focus attention specifically on competitiveness in the context of a set of ...
Towards Sustainable Offshore Outsourcing: A Case Study of Quebec Manufacturing Firms Outsourcing to China
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUM, 2010)
The offshore-outsourcing choice is viewed as a source of factory closures and job losses in many developed countries including Canada. The current exploratory paper using qualitative case study methods presents experiences ...
Measuring Competitiveness at the Subnational Level: The Case of 37 Nigerian States
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUM, 2013)
The purpose of this paper is to present a new approach to estimate competitiveness at the subnational level and identify the most important policy reforms likely to foster competitiveness in a locality. The model builds ...