Competitiveness Between Meaningfulness And Meaninglessness
Journal Title: International Journal of Business and Management Invention - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
Competitiveness is greeted with a big controversy. The least it can be said is that it is not precise enough. Adam Smith and David Ricardo spoke about the cross-national competitiveness. However, they did not use the word competitiveness at all. They created their own concepts. In his masterpiece "On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation" where he states the basis of his theory of free trade via the law of comparative advantage, and over three hundred pages, Ricardo has not used the word "Competitiveness" at all, not even once. Similarly, Adam Smith had spent several years publishing his famous and leading book "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" where he presents his thinking on absolute advantage without using the word "competitiveness" anywhere. Literature offers us abundant definitions, none of which is good enough to explain many situations that so many literary and empirical works have sought to explain. During the last century, expressions appeared as synonym of competitiveness as "National power" in List's papers. The Japanese ones used "productive national power" by reference to the German school of List. As for the Americans, they opted for Schumpeter's school and used "productive power". All these expressions have been used with aim to designate competitiveness. Other works has preferred to assimilate competitiveness through concepts and notions that they have created as result of their reflections, as it is the case of absolute advantage, comparative advantage and competitive advantage. Is it a good way to try to understand Competitiveness through its definitions? shouldn't we analyze it itself rather than its definitions? Is competitiveness first a concept?
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Abdelhadi Boussas, Mohammed Saber Hassainate
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