The International Competitiveness of Trade in Tourism Services: Evidence from Romania

The influence of globalization on international competitiveness is considered in the article. Two strategies of economic growth are pointed out: the low road, that is producing more at lower cost and lower wages, with increasingly intensive exploitation of labor and environment, and the high road, that is upgrading capabilities in order to produce better basing on knowledge. Restrictions for developing countries trying to reach global competitiveness are formulated. Special attention is paid to the concept of upgrading and opportunities of joining transnational value chains. The importance of learning and forming social and political institutions for successful upgrading of the economy is stressed.

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The Use of Port Performance Indexes in the Transport Economy and the Strengthening of Port Competitiveness

Journal of Business and Economics ◽

10.15341/jbe(2155-7950)/05.10.2019/003 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (5) ◽

pp. 387-394

Author(s):

Astrida Rijkure ◽

Keyword(s):

Quality Assurance ◽

Performance Indicators ◽

Management Practices ◽

International Competitiveness ◽

International Experience ◽

Multimodal Integration ◽

Pricing Policies ◽

Performance Indexes ◽

Quality Assurance Process ◽

Assurance Process

Ports in the transport economy have an important role to play in the competitiveness of ports. There is an increasing climate of competition, which causes ports to invest in development and to improve their transport corridors, governance principles and pricing policies in order to strengthen international competitiveness of ports and to ensure that their management practices are in line with the positive international experience. In order to increase the efficiency of transport, to promote the use of environmentally friendly technologies and to improve the international competitiveness of port transport corridors, it is important for ports to determine their own KPI indicators that would be used to assess port performance indicators. As ports are responsible for the quality assurance of port services, even if they do not provide such services, monitoring and assessing of the KPI must be part of the quality assurance process. The objective of this study is to define the port performance-enhancing KPI indexes and to make suggestions for how KPI application in the transport economy can strengthen the international competitiveness of ports and ensure that their management practises international experience. The study’s tasks are to define the appropriate KPI indexes, group them according to interlinked principles, and provide proposals on how to use them to improve the international competitiveness of ports and the main transport system multimodal integration.

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Book review

Acta Oeconomica ◽

10.1556/aoecon.52.2002.4.6 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 52 (4) ◽

pp. 503-514

Author(s):

András Simonovits ◽

Ádám Török ◽

Beatrix Lányi

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

Knowledge Economy ◽

International Competitiveness ◽

Regional Studies ◽

Academic Press ◽

Eu Membership ◽

New Knowledge ◽

Edward Elgar

T. Boeri - A. Börsch-Supan - A. Brugviani - R. A. Kapteyn - F. Peracchi (eds): Pensions: More Information, Less Ideology(Boston/Dordrecht/London: Kluwer Academic Press, 2001, 196 pp.) B. Å. Lundvall - G. Esping-Andersen - L. Soete - M. Castells - M. Telò - M. Tomlinson - R. Boyer - R. M. Lindley (ed.: M. J. Rodrigues): The New Knowledge Economy in Europe. A Strategy for International Competitiveness and Cohesion (Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2002, 337 pp.) G. Gorzelak - É. Ehrlich - L. Faltan - M. Illner: Central Europe in Transition: Toward EU Membership (Warsaw: Regional Studies Association, 2001, 371 pp.)

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