[PDF] Top 20 Competitiveness and industrial evolution: the case of ceramics industry

... region of Aveiro offers the ceramic business a unique set of ...sources of energy, financial assets (capital), labour, the entrepreneurial vision of local businessmen; dynamic ... See full document

... marking the fifth year of Chinese reform and opening-up, confronted with such questions as “Is China a socialist or capitalist country?”, Deng Xiaoping (the chief designer of Chinese ... See full document

... on the relationship between domestic market structure and export performance has reached ambiguous conclusions about export performance, so predicting whether a firm’s export performance is positively ... See full document

... The case of dedicated biotechnology firms targeting other user sectors such as agriculture, food or energy/environment is much less ...However, the limited research available suggests that ... See full document

... is the level of management practice adoption, which deals with the heterogeneity in the application of a given practice in different firms (Bromiley & Rau, ...While the exact ... See full document

... alternative industry trajectories are explained by one central element: the distribution of brand levels among the dominant ...When the random distribution of brand levels ... See full document

... creation of local models of the productive chain, such as modular consortium and industrial condominiums, sought to bring the automaker closer to the main Tier 1 ... See full document

... & INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY & THE CHEMICALS INDUSTRY. The main aim of this paper was to contribute to reflections in Brazil on the need to transfer knowledge held at ... See full document

... is the failure of the sector ...Peapod and Streamline) and UK (Asda and Sainsbury’s) firms made early investments in expensive, dedicated online ...service and ... See full document

... At the same time, Barcelona’s government has been investing in the creation of autonomous agencies to promote arts, which work together with universities, artists and associations (example: ... See full document

... under the existing GATT ...reduction and removal of non-tariff barriers among other various ...on the service industry due to the industrial characteristics until ... See full document

... within the Iberian Peninsula and towards the other European ...First, the authorities need to better understand the complex environment that seaports currently ...likelihood of ... See full document

... that the construction should follow industrial trends of increasing efficiency, control, quality, productivity, and overall decrease in cost per unit as see in the automobile, ships ... See full document

... Thus, the knowledge of both the organization and its employees is crucial to follow the markets’ evolution and the shifts in clients’ ...needs. The knowledge ... See full document

... in the late seventies, their application by the Museum and Information Sciences community has had to overcome the analysis of the huge work and investment already made in ... See full document

... this case, the strategy is the result of combining existing resources with activities and, taken together, to generate specific skills that sustain competitive ...advantages. The ... See full document

... in the sintering of ad- vanced ceramic materials is to obtain a material with high relative density and homogeneous microstruc- ture consisting of small ...In the case of ... See full document

... era of particularly intense competition, the consulting services are becoming an increasingly important source of aid for strategic making and an important way to increase efficiency ... See full document

... THE EVOLUTION OF THE BRAZILIAN PETROCHEMICAL ...INDUSTRY. The Brazilian Petro- chemical Industry is about to turn fifty years old, and endures profound ...system ... See full document

... across the literature and depending on their origins they either focus on relationships and connections, such as DeBresson (1996) with “ (…) not just a simple concentration of independent ... See full document