A grounded approach to identifying national competitive advantage: A preliminary exploration

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 631-657

  Thompson, Edmund R ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN ASIA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); FACTOR ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NATIONAL ECONOMY;

CHINA;

EID: 0038669299     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a35110     Document Type: Article

References (129)

1. Armstrong J S, Overton T S, 1977, "Estimating nonresponse bias in mail surveys" Journal of Marketing Research 14 396-402
2. Arnold H J, Feldman D C, 1981, "Social desirability response bias in self-report choice situations" Academy of Management Journal 24 377-385
3. Barro R J, 1991, "Economic growth in a cross-section of countries" Quarterly Journal of Economics 106 407-443
4. Barro R J, 1996, "Democracy and growth" Journal of Economic Growth 1 1-27
5. Begg I, 1999, "Cities and competitiveness" Urban Studies 36 795-809
6. Berger S, Lester R K (Eds), 1997 Made by Hong Kong (Oxford University Press, Hong Kong)
7. Boddy M, 1999, "Geographical economics and urban competitiveness: a critique" Urban Studies 36 811-842
8. Boltho A, 1996, "The assessment: international competitiveness" Oxford Review of Economic Policy 12(3) 1-16
9. Browning L D, Beyer J M, Shelter J C, 1995, "Building cooperation in a competitive industry" Academy of Management Journal 38 113-152
10. Buckley P J, Pass C L, Prescott K, 1988, "Measures of international competitiveness: a critical survey" Journal of Marketing Management 4 175-200
11. Bueno de Mesquita B, Newman D, Rabushka A, 1996 Red Flag over Hong Kong (Chatham House, Chatham, NJ)
12. Burton D F, 1994, "Competitiveness: here to stay" The Washington Quarterly 17(4) 99-109
13. Cadwallader M, 1987, "Linear structural relationships with latent-variables: the lisrel model" The Professional Geographer 39 317-326
14. Campbell D T, Fiske D W, 1959, "Convergent and discriminant validation by the multrait-multimethod matrix" Psychological Bulletin 56(2) 81-105
15. Carlin W, Glyn A, Van Reenen J, 2001, "Export market performance of OECD countries: an empirical examination of the role of cost competitiveness" The Economic Journal 111 128-162
16. Commission of the European Communities, 1994 An Industrial Competitiveness Policy for the European Union Communication from the Commission to the Council COM(94) 319 fin September, Brussels
17. Daniels J E, Mann O K, 1984, "Unidimensional measurement and structural equation models with latent-variables" Journal of Business Research 12 337-352
18. Davies H, Ellis P, 2000, "Porter's Competitive Advantage of Nations: time for the final judgment?" Journal of Management Studies 37 1189-1213
19. Deas I, Giordano B, 2001, "Conceptualising and measuring urban competitiveness in major English cities: an exploratory approach" Environmental and Planning A 33 1411-1429
20. Department of Trade and Industry, 1998 Our Competitive Future: Building the Knowledge Driven Economy Cm 4176 (The Stationery Office, London)
21. Dertouzos M L, Lester R K, Solow R M, MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity, 1988 Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA)
22. Downey H K, Hellriegel D, Slocum J W, 1975, "Environmetal uncertainty: construct and its application" Administrative Science Quarterly 20 613-629
23. Duncan O D, Stenbeck M, Brody C J, 1988, "Discovering heterogeneity-continuous versus discrete latent-variables" American Journal of Sociology 93 1305-1321
24. Ebrahimi B P, 2000, "Perceived strategic uncertainty and environmental scanning behavior of Hong Kong Chinese executives" Journal of Business Research 49(1) 67-77
25. EIU, various years Global Country Forecast (The Economist Intelligence Unit, London)
26. Elenkov D S, 1997, "Strategic uncertainty and environmental scanning: the case for institutional influences on scanning behavior" Strategic Management Journal 18 287-302
27. Enright M J, Scott E E, Dodwell D, 1997 The Hong Kong Advantage (Oxford University Press, Hong Kong)
28. Fagerberg J, 1988, "International competitiveness" The Economic Journal 98(391) 355-374
29. Fagerberg J, 1996, "Technology and competitiveness" Oxford Review of Economic Policy 12(3) 39-51
30. Falthzik A M, Carroll S J, 1971, 'Rate of return for closed versus open-ended questions in a mail questionnaire survey of industrial organizations" Psychological Reports 29 1121-1122
31. Fraser Institute, various years Economic Freedom of the World Report (Fraser Institute, Vancouver)
32. Friedman M, 1962 Capitalism and Freedom (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL)
33. Friedman M, 1988, "A statistical note on the Gastil-Wright survey of freedom", in Freedom Democracy and Economic Welfare Ed. A Walker (Fraser Institute, Vancouver) pp 121-125
34. Friedman M, 1997, "If only the US were as free as Hong Kong" Wall Street Journal 9 July, page 6
35. Ganster D C, Hennessey H W, Luthans F, 1983, "Social desirability response effects-3 alternative models" Academy of Management Journal 26 321-331
36. Gastil R D, 1974, "Survey of freedom" World View 17(1) 47-51
37. Gastil R D, 1986 Freedom in the World: Political Rights and Civil Liberties, 1985-1986 (Greenwood Press, Westport, CT)
38. Georghiou L G, Metcalfe J S, 1993, "Evaluation of the impact of European Community research programmes upon industrial competitiveness" R and D Management 23(2) 161-183
39. Glaser B G, 1992 Basics of Grounded Theory Analysis: Emergence vs. Forcing (Sociology Press, Mill Valley, CA)
40. Glaser B G, Strauss A L, 1967 The Discovery of Grounded Research: Strategies for Grounded Research (Aldine, Chicago, IL)
41. Grant R M, 1991, "Porter's Competitive advantage of nations an assessment" Strategic Management Journal 12 535-549
42. Gustavsson P, Hansson P, Lundberg L, 1999, "Technology, resource endowments and international competitiveness" European Economic Review 43 1501-1530
43. Hair J F, Tatham R L, Black W C, 1998 Multivariate Data Analysis (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ)
44. Hambrick D C, 1981, "Specialization of environmental scanning activities among upper level executives" Journal of Management Studies 18 299-320
45. Hambrick D C, 1982, "Environmental scanning and organizational strategy" Strategic Management Journal 3(2) 159-174
46. Hanke S H, Walters S J K, 1997, "Economic freedom, prosperity, and equality: a survey" Cato Journal 17(2) 117-145
47. Harman H H, 1976 Modern Factor Analysis 3rd edition (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL)
48. Harzing A W, 2000, "Cross-national industrial mail surveys: why do response rates differ between countries?" Industrial Marketing Management 29 243-254
49. Heritage Foundation, various years Index of Economic Freedom Wall Street Journal and Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, DC 20002-4999
50. Heseltine M, 1994, "Competitiveness: what, why and how?" European Business Journal 6(3) 8-15
51. Hoelter J W, 1983, "The analysis of covariance structures: goodness-of-fit indices" Sociological Methods and Research 11 325-344
52. Huber G P, O'Connell M J, Cummings L L, 1975, "Perceived environmental uncertainty-effects of information and structure" Academy of Management Journal 18 725-740
53. Hughes M A, Price R L, Marrs D W, 1986, "Linking theory construction and theory testing-models with multiple indicators of latent-variables" Academy of Management Review 11 128-144
54. IMD, various years World Competitiveness Yearbook International Institute for Management Development, Ch. de Bellerive 23, PO Box 915, CH-1001 Lausanne
55. Islam N, 1995, "Growth empirics: a panel data approach" Quarterly Journal of Economics November, pp 1127-1170
56. Jennings D F, Lumpkin J R, 1992, "Insights between environmental scanning activities and Porter's generic strategies: an empirical analysis" Journal of Management 18 791-803
57. Jobber D, Mirza H, Wee K H, 1991, "Incentives and response rates to cross-national business surveys-a logit model analysis" Journal of International Business Studies 22 711-721
58. Johnston L D, Chinn M D, 1996, "How well is the United States competing? A comment on Papadakis" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 15 67-81
59. Keep E, Mayhew K, 1999, "The assessment: knowledge, skills, and competitiveness" Oxford Review of Economic Policy 15(1) 1-15
60. Kormendi R C, Meguire P G, 1985, "Macroeconomic determinants of growth: cross-country evidence" Journal of Monetary Economics 16(2) 141-163
61. Kravis I B, Lipsey R E, 1967, "The measurement of price change: a report on the study of international price competitiveness" The American Economic Review 57(2) 482-491
62. Krugman P R, 1991, "Myths and realities of US competitiveness" Science 254 811-814
63. Krugman P R, 1994, "Competitiveness: a dangerous obsession" Foreign Affairs 94 28-44
64. Krugman P R, 1996, "Making sense of the competitiveness debate" Oxford Review of Economic Policy 12(3) 17-25
65. Krugman P R, 1997, "What do undergrads need to know about trade?" The American Economic Review 83(2) 23-26
66. Lall S, 2001, "Competitiveness indices and the developing countries: an economic evaluation of the Global Competitiveness Report" World Development 29 1501-1525
67. Lawton T C, 1999, "Evaluating European competitiveness: measurements and models for a successful business environment" European Business Journal 11(4) 195-205
68. Leifer R, Huber G P, 1977, "Relations among perceived environmental uncertainty, organization structure, and boundary-spanning behavior" Administrative Science Quarterly 22(2) 235-247
69. Linstone H A, Turoff M (Eds), 1975 The Delphi Method: Techniques and Applications (Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA)
70. Lipset S M, 1959, "Some social requisites of democracy: economic development and political legitimacy" American Political Science Review 53(1) 69-105
71. Locke K, Golden-Biddle K, 1997, "Constructing opportunities for contribution: structuring intertextual coherence and 'problematizing' in organizational studies" Academy of Management Journal 40 1023-1062
72. Lucas R, 1988, "On the mechanics of economic development" Journal of Monetary Economics 22 3-42
73. McGeehan J M, 1968, "Competitiveness: a survey of recent literature" The Economic Journal 78(310) 243-262
74. Manzur M, Wong W K, Chee I C, 1999, "Measuring international competitiveness: experience from East Asia" Applied Economics 31 1383-1391
75. Markusen A, 1994, "Studying regions by studying firms" The Professional Geographer 4 477-490
76. Markusen A, 1999, "Fuzzy concepts, scanty evidence, policy distance: the case for rigour and policy relevance in critical regional studies" Regional Studies 33 869-884
77. Marsh I W, Tokarick S P, 1996, "An assessment of three measures of competitiveness" Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 132 700-722
78. Mauro P, 1995, "Corruption and growth" Quarterly Journal of Economics August, pages 681-712
79. Meyer D R, 2000 Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)
80. Milberg W, 1994, "Market competition and the failure of competitiveness enhancement policies" Journal of Economic Issues 27 587-596
81. Ministry of Economic Affairs, 1994 Benchmarking the Netherlands: Test of Dutch Competitiveness Information and Press Department, Ministry of Economic Affairs, The Hague
82. North D C, 1988, "Institutions, economic growth and freedom: an historical analysis", in Freedom. Democracy and Economic Welfare Ed. A Walker (Fraser Institute, Vancouver) pp 3-25
83. North D C, 1990 Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)
84. OECD, 1992 Technology and the Economy: The Key Relationships (OECD, Paris)
85. OECD, 1998 The Competitiveness of Transition Economies (OECD, Paris)
86. Oral M, Chabchoub H, 1996, "On the methodology of the World Competitiveness Report" European Journal of Operational Research 90 514-535
87. Oral M, Chabchoub H, 1997, "An estimation model for replicating the rankings of the World Competitiveness Report" International Journal of Forecasting 13 527-537
88. Oughton C, 1997, "Competitiveness policy in the 1990s" The Economic Journal 107 1486-1503
89. Papadakis M, 1994, "Did (or does) the United States have a competitiveness crisis?" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 13(1) 1-20
90. Papadakis M, 1996, "Confounding productivity and competitiveness" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 15(1) 82-88
91. Plummer P, 2001, "Vague theories, sophisticated techniques, and poor data" Environment and Planning A 33 761-764
92. Podsakoff P M, Organ D W, 1986, "Self report in organizational research: problems and prospects" Journal of Management 12 531-544
93. Porter M E, 1990 The Competitive Advantage of Nations (Macmillan, London)
94. Preeg E H, 1994, "Krugmanian competitiveness: a dangerous obfuscation" The Washington Quarterly 17(4) 111-112
95. President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness, 1985 Global Competition: The New Reality, Volume 2 (US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC)
96. Przeworski A, Limongi F, 1993, "Political regimes and economic growth" Journal of Economic Perspectives 7(3) 51-69
97. Rabushka A, 1979 Hong Kong: A Study in Economic Freedom (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL)
98. Rabushka A, 1988, "Economic, civil, and political freedoms: the cases of Singapore and Hong Kong", in Freedom, Democracy and Economic Welfare Ed. A Walker (Fraser Institute, Vancouver) pp 151-183
99. Rabushka A, 1991, "Preliminary definition of economic freedom", in Economic Freedom: Toward a Theory of Measurement Ed. W Block (Fraser Institute, Vancouver) pp 87-108
100. Rabushka A, 1997 Freedom's Fall in Hong Kong Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
101. Reich R, 1990, "But now we're global" Times Literary Supplement 30 August, pages 925-926
102. Reinert E S, 1995, "Competitiveness and its predecessors-a 500-year cross-national perspective" Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 6 23-42
103. Rugman A M, Verbeke A, 1993, "Foreign subsidiaries and multinational strategic management: an extension and correction of Porter's single diamond framework" Management International Review 2 71-84
104. Salvatore D, 1998, "Europe's structural and competitiveness problems and the Euro" World Economy 21(2) 189-205
105. Samual P, Mote V L, 1970, "Competitiveness of exports: a micro-level approach" The Economic Journal 80(320) 895-909
106. Scott B R, Lodge G C, 1985 US Competitiveness in the World Economy (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA)
107. Scully G W, 1988, "The institutional framework and economic development" Journal of Political Economy 96 652-662
108. Scully G W, 1992 Constitutional Environments and Economic Growth (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ)
109. Sousa D J, 2002, "Converging on competitiveness: garbage cans and the new global economy" Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 20 1-18
110. Spindler Z, Still L, 1991, "Economic freedom ratings", in Economic Freedom: Toward a Theory of Measurement Ed. W Block (Fraser Institute, Vancouver) pp 135-175
111. Steinle W J, 1992, "Regional competitiveness and the Single Market" Regional Studies 26(4) 307-318
112. Storper M, 1995, "Competitiveness policy options: the technology-regions connections" Growth and Change 26 285-309
113. Strange S, 1998, "Who are EU? Ambiguities in the concept of competitiveness" Journal of Common Market Studies 36(1) 101-114
114. The Economist 1996, "The C-word strikes back", 1 June, page 76
115. Thurow L C, 1992 Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle among Japan, Europe and America (Morrow, New York)
116. Tunzelmann G N, 1995, "Government policy and the long-run dynamics of competitiveness" Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 6 1-21
117. Tyson L D A, 1992 Who's Bashing Whom: Trade Conflict in High-Technology Industries (Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC)
118. Vickerman R W, 1989, "Measuring changes in regional competitiveness: the effects of international infrastructure" Annals of Regional Science 23 275-286
119. Vision 2047 Foundation, 2002, http://www.vision2047.org.hk/about_us.htm
120. Warr P G, 1994, "Comparative and competitive advantage" Asia-Pacific Economic Literature 8(2) 1-14
121. WEF, various years Global Competitiveness Report World Economic Forum, 91-93 route de la Capite, CH-1223 Cologny, Geneva
122. Wentland E J, 1993 Survey Responses: An Evaluation of their Validity (Academic Press, San Diego, CA)
123. Werner S, Brouthers L E, Brouthers K D, 1996, "International risk and perceived environmental uncertainty: the dimensionality and internal consistency of Miller's measure" Journal of International Business Studies 27 571-587
124. Williams L J, Buckley M R, Cote J A, 1989, "Lack of method variance in self-reported affect and perceptions at work: reality or artifact?" Journal of Applied Psychology 74 462-468
125. Wold H, 1974, "Causal flows with latent variables-partings of ways in light of Nipals modelling" European Economic Review 5(1) 67-86
126. Wolfgramm S J F, Boal K B, Hunt J G, 1998, "Organizational adaptation to institutional change: a comparative study of first-order change in prospector and defender banks" Administrative Science Quarterly 43(1) 87-126
127. Yahuda M, 1996 Hong Kong: China's Challenge (Routledge, London)
128. Yetton P, Craig J, Davis J, Hilmer F, 1992, "Are diamonds a country's best friends? A critique of Porter's theory of national competition as applied to Canada, New Zealand and Australia" Australian Journal of Management 17(1) 89-119
129. Yoshitomi M, 1996, "On the changing international competitiveness of Japanese manufacturing since 1985" Oxford Review of Economic Policy 12(3) 61-73