Have Competitiveness Research Projects Brought a System Paradigm Shift?

Erzsébet Czakó ()
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Erzsébet Czakó: Department of Business Economics, BUESPA, H-1093 Budapest, Fővám tér 8, Hungary

Society and Economy, 2003, vol. 25, issue 3, 337-349

Abstract: Competitiveness research projects, especially in the United States, revealed and described some phenomena, having become commonplaces by now, for the first time in the 1980s. Examples of such phenomena are the following: each developed market economy can be described as an open economy and we have to live and manage in a global economy. Competitiveness research projects formulated suggestions for governments and business leaders on how to cope with the evolving phenomena. They also provided their theoretical backgrounds but there are still some theoretical and empirical dilemmas in competitiveness research projects regardless of their effectiveness. One such dilemma is their either economics or business origin. The paper discusses the main reason for this and suggests that competitiveness research projects have brought a system paradigm that makes necessary the modification and reinterpretation of traditional borderlines and the scope of economics and business studies.

Keywords: competitive advantage; competitiveness research; national competitiveness; system paradigm (shift) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
Note: The paper is based on Chapter 2 of the author’s PhD dissertation. The author would like to thank the referees, Jean-Paul Larcon, HEC, Joy-en-Josas, Tibor Palánkai, BUESPA and Ádám Török, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, for their invaluable comments, and Attila Chikán for his supervising.
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