Competitiveness Review: Volume 31 Issue 4

Nexus of financial inclusion, competition, concentration and financial stability: Cross-country empirical evidence

Mallika Saha, Kumar Debasis Dutta

Since the strike of the 2007-2008 global financial crises, financial stability has been discussed with immense interest in academic and policy circles. Following this essence…

Competitive capabilities in knowledge-intensive services firms: strategic advantages of born globals in a peripheral region

Marta Muñoz Guarasa, Bruno Brandão Fischer

While the born global (BG) phenomenon has been well established in the literature, studies on accelerated internationalization of firms in the service sector have been scarce…

The social progress on the development of global competitiveness

Ícaro Célio Santos de Carvalho, Luiz Carlos Di Serio, Camilla Maria Cavalcante Guimarães, Karina Santos Furlanetto

This study aims to evaluate the competitiveness of nations and seeks to answer the following research question: how does the competitiveness of nations include improvements in the…

State ownership, firm innovation and the moderating role of private-sector competition: the case of China

Hongyan Yang, H. Kevin Steensma, Ting Ren

This paper aims to study how state ownership influences the innovation process in terms of allocating resources toward searching for new solutions and converting these efforts…

Sustainability reporting and bank performance after financial crisis: Evidence from developed and developing countries

Amina Buallay, Sayed M. Fadel, Jasim Alajmi, Shahrokh Saudagaran

This study aims to examine the relationship between sustainability reporting and bank performance after financial crisis in developed and developing countries.

Dichotomous impacts on social and environmental sustainability: competitiveness and development levels matter

Eleanor Doyle, Mauricio Perez Alaniz

Whereas in developed countries, sustainability primarily focuses on environmental topics, in developing countries the issues of poverty, development and equity are equally, if not…