Theories And Methods Of International Competitiveness Evaluation Study

Over the last two decades the Concept of competitiveness has become increasingly central to private and public policy-makers' concerns. Growing concern with competitiveness can be associated with two trends that< have been evident in the world economy since the 1970s: deteriorating economic performance in industrial countries; increasing penetration of global market. In Chin, the perceived weakness of domestic industry in the face of foreign competitors was followed by interest in study on competitiveness and its measurement.The concept of competitiveness is so complex that no clear-cut definition of it finds general acceptance. The reports and studies dealing with competitiveness from different point of view usually contain a different definition of it. This assertation attempted to, giving a general acceptable concept of competitiveness, proposing a framework of highlighting its determinants and establishing a pragmatic approach tends to measure it in different level.The competitiveness is strength revealed by the competitors during a competition. Competitiveness is the comparative advantages of competitors on comparison each other; during the competition, competitiveness is an attraction to the factors; as the result of competition, it is the ability to generate the income. This definition opens out the tree elements of measurement of competitiveness: the result of competition, the factors of competition and the comparison of competitors.From the result of competition, the income per capital is the best indicator of competitiveness at the level of the economy; At the industrial level and the firm level, the profitability is the more definitive index of competitiveness. The ability creating income and profit can be interpreted by the difference of price, cost and productivity. The another watching result during and after the competition is the share of market by which the potential of creating income ability will be revealed. The relation among the profitability, share market and international competitiveness has been theoretically discovered and pragmatically interpreted in this dissertation.In order to recognize why a competitor is competitive, the dissertation proposes a nine determinant factor model, a framework of tree dimension analysis model and tree key-determinants find-out models at the firm level. At the industrial level, a five-dimension analysis framework and a tree-factors analysis model suggested. At the national level, four-dimension analysis model was established for interpret its competitiveness.After theoretically study, this dissertation discusses in detail the measurement index such as the export share market, price, cost, productivity, and their usage. The benchmarking approach considering as a best tool of finding out the determinants of competitiveness has been discussed indetail. The IMD, the WEF and Porter's methodology of measuring competitiveness has been critiqued in this dissertation as the most popular methodology in the domain. The dissertation is finished by some normalized studies of measurement index.