Gordon et al. (2005) added that a combination of port facilities, including sufficient investment, supportive government policies, excellence in operation and information technology, can help a port attain sustainable competitiveness, which will produce higher seaborne trade compared to the less competitive ports.
In many developing countries, industries have failed to attain international competitiveness even after 15 or 20 years of operation and might not survive if protective tariffs were removed.
High performance manufacturing (HPM) indicates the capability of a manufacturing firm to accomplish continuous improvement through management of manufacturing practices and thus attain global competitiveness.
The importance of developing global as well as local networks between tourism firms and clusters seeking to attain global competitiveness has been increasingly emphasized in previous studies.
That is, a policy that deliberately depresses wages to attain higher competitiveness would also lead to a lower purchasing power, dampening the potential sales levels of companies.
The resulting dynamics served APBioNet and its community well to grow and attain international competitiveness in bioinformatics.
The analyses based on the configurational perspective indicate that synergy between JIT practices and infrastructure practices needs to be exploited to attain superior plant competitiveness.
Target costing views meeting or exceeding customer requirements for quality, functionality, and price as key to attain and sustain product competitiveness (Archie Lockamy and Wilbur 2000).
Information and Communications Technologies ICTss) facilitate human exchange, particularly commercial and political transactions, which in turn, develop the base of knowledge capital and raise the stakes for attaining and sustaining competitiveness in global markets.
Management based on lean production principles has enabled enterprises to attain very high levels of efficiency, competitiveness and flexibility in production systems.
The competitiveness of the proposed isogeometric shell formulation in terms of computational costs to attain a pre-defined error level is shown.
