Competitiveness Review: Volume 33 Issue 6

Leveraging (in)formal early-mover and diligent-follower advantage mechanisms to attain international niche market leadership: insights from Basque “hidden champions”

Bart Kamp, Iñigo Ruiz de Apodaca

This paper aims to study whether international niche market leaders (INMLs) gained their leading position as early mover or diligent follower, and assess whether they leveraged…

Market structure, institutional quality and bank stability: evidence from emerging and developing countries

Hung Son Tran, Thanh Dat Nguyen, Thanh Liem Nguyen

The purpose of this study is to carry out an empirical investigation about how the level of market concentration or competitiveness of the banking system and institutional quality…

Franchising variation across US states

Mary Kay Rickard, L. Brooke Conaway

The purpose of this study is to examine whether variation in franchising across US states can be explained by differences in state regulatory burdens.

Analyzing relative export competitiveness of Indian agricultural food products: a study of fresh and processed fruits and vegetables

Ashpreet Sharma, Lalit Mohan Kathuria, Tanveen Kaur

Given the dominant share of India in global production of fruits and vegetables, this paper intends to analyze the export competitiveness of India and other major food exporters…

Effect of cluster initiatives and natural clusters on business performance

Miroslav Zizka, Eva Stichhauerova

This study aims to determine how much company participation in a type of cluster affects its economic performance.

The comparative advantages in the wooden furniture industry: does the export price matter?

Yunus Emre Topcu

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the global competitiveness of the top ten wooden furniture exporting countries with several approaches and to test the effect of export…

Towards an emic model of business culture

Ron Berger, Netanel Drori, Matti Rachamim, Ilan Alon

This paper aims to generalize emic studies of culture and thus provide indigenous view nuanced particularly for emerging markets.

Emerging HR analytics role in a crisis: an analysis of LinkedIn data

Neerja Kashive, Vandana Tandon Khanna

This study aims to explore the emergence of the human resource (HR) analyst role. The job posts on LinkedIn display the industry demand and skills required by the organizations…

Voluntary disclosure and corporate governance: substitutes or complements for firm value?

Soufiene Assidi

The purpose of this study is to examine whether voluntary disclosure (VD) and corporate governance (CG) are substitutes or complements to each other in improving firms’ value in a…