Those concerns have been magnified by a recent diatribe against French workers by an American tire company executive, Maurice Taylor Jr., who said he would be "stupid" to invest in a French factory, and a call for a "competitiveness shock" from a former top aerospace executive, Louis Gallois.
His report called for a "competitiveness shock" that would require politicians to curb the "cult of regulation" he said was choking business in France.
Mr Gallois called for a "competitiveness shock": a cut in social charges worth as much as €30 billion ($38 billion), ideally in one year.
But the government stopped short of adopting the broader changes that an expert panel led by a prominent business executive, Louis Gallois, recommended a day earlier in a report that called for a "competitiveness shock" to the French economy.
PARIS — President François Hollande of France received a challenge on Monday from a report he himself commissioned, as an expert panel called for a "competitiveness shock" to a country falling behind in the global economic race.
But in fact, France is hemorrhaging industrial jobs to such an extent — 750,000 in the past decade — that in a government-commissioned report made public this month, Louis Gallois, a prominent businessman, called for "a competitiveness shock" to stanch the bleeding.
That's the reason for her call to competitiveness and recovery in Europe – and she's afraid that Europe doesn't get it.
Chinese voices call for the U.S. to enhance the competitiveness of its own companies, rather than use China's own initiative and drive as an excuse for U.S. overspending and underinvestment.
A growing number of scholars and practitioners are calling for attention to be given to the integration of market orientation (MO) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) for competitiveness (Brik et al. 2011; Mitchell et al. 2010; Qu 2009).
