Citation
(2006), "New Zealand needs more globally competitive firms", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 55 No. 8. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijppm.2006.07955hab.008
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2006, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
New Zealand needs more globally competitive firms
Helen Clark, Prime minister of New Zealand recently opened the parliamentary year with a speech that owed much to the promotion of higher productivity.
In it she said that, “ We need a strong economy to deliver the living standards, the services, and the quality of life which the citizens of our first world country expect, deserve, and are prepared to work for. Now it is time to move to the next level in the economic transformation agenda.”
“Our country needs more globally competitive firms.”
“We need higher productivity, business investment, and skills levels, and more innovation in the economy.”
“We need to remove the infrastructure constraints which hold back world class performance in Auckland, our only city of international scale, while ensuring our regions continue to thrive.”
“And we need to work closely with business, workers’ representatives, educators, scientists, regions, and communities to lift our level of ambition about what can be achieved for our country, and lift our nation’s economic performance further.”