Competitiveness Review: Volume 28 Issue 2

Determinant factors of competitiveness in the hotel sector: the case of Portugal

Sara Nunes, Cristina Estevão, Maria Nicolau Filipe

Competitiveness has been the objective of investigation in tourism in general, and particularly in hospitality, by many researchers in the past decades. The purpose of this study…

Regional patent activity in Russia: does level of risks make a difference?

Natalia Ermasova, Olumide Ijose, Sergey Ermasov

The purpose of this paper is to explore empirically the linkages among level of economic, managerial, financial, criminal risks and patent activity in Russia. This paper examines…

Location and competitiveness in subsistence small businesses

Carlos M. Jardon

This paper aims to analyse the location as root of the specificity of the sources of competitiveness in subsistence small businesses (SSBs) of wood industry to improve the…

A case study on Malaysia and Singapore: Nexus amongst competitiveness, cost of living, wages, purchasing power and liveability

Khee Giap Tan, Hui Yin Chuah, Nguyen Trieu Duong Luu

Malaysia and Singapore had parted more than five decades ago. Much of the existing literature concerned about the bilateral ties between two economies focusing on the political…

A synthetic indicator of corruption for Latin America: a global vision

Gilberto Cardenas Cardenas, Sofía García Gamez, Alvaro Salas Suarez

The purpose of this paper is to develop an overview of the phenomenon of corruption in Latin America and to propose a synthetic aggregate indicator to compress most of the…

Business intelligence and competitiveness: the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation

Nuno Caseiro, Arnaldo Coelho

This study aims to investigate the influence of business intelligence (BI) in startups competitiveness, contributing to a gap in literature as this relationship is normally more…