Although there is a block of literature that examines the relationship between psychology and sports injuries, studies on hardiness, competitive anxiety and competitiveness are very scarce.
To be the head of a competitive business school in higher education, qualities like shrewdness, tenacity, ingenuity and competitiveness are important for any dean -- or rat -- to have.
Quotas and competitiveness are not mutually exclusive.
The claims about Argentina's lack of competitiveness are nonsense.
"Any areas of real competitiveness are shrinking," Bitzer said.
But worries about longer-term competitiveness are growing.
"My prime attributes, awareness, application and competitiveness, are more enduring," he writes.
Ledecky's racing instincts and competitiveness are also earning her fans outside the sport.
His vanity and fierce competitiveness are seen as compensation for his embarrassment at his physical deformity.
Spanish structural realities run a along a similar track: Productivity and competitiveness are low.
Finally, all these measures of competitiveness are highly imperfect — which they are.
