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Gutes Ex. - Englisch. // Enhancing competitiveness poses a key challenge to all countries. The analysis of different developing regions shows that the most dynamic countries are not those that put all their bets on competition between isolated firms, unconditioned free trade, and the state as an institution of regulation and supervision only. Rather, the most successful countries are those that actively shape locational and competitive advantages. In a global economic environment marked by new patterns of competition, organizational concepts and technologies, the most efficient countries turn out to be those in which groups of relevant actors succeed in organizing rapid and effective learning and decision-making processes and shaping the business environment in accordance with the new requirements that are emerging: - the new pattern of competition marked by knowledge- and technology-based competitive advantages; competitive advantages based on inherited factor endowments and losing their significance; - firms experiencing the emergence of new organizational structures characterized by less hierarchic organizational concepts (team work, decentralization of decision-making processes, split-ups of large enterprises to form strategic business units); firms embedded in dense technological and productive networks (industrial clusters, industrial districts, business alliances, long-term contractual arrangements with suppliers); - radical technical change giving rise both to a restructuring of old industries and a creation of new ones and to substitution processes that see traditional raw materials being edged out by new ones; - in the political sphere, the new pattern of competition requiring active policies aimed at shaping industrial locations, their formulation and implementation based on cooperative approaches that focus on the know-how provided by firms, science, and the public sector (policy networks), and complementing the market mechanism in this way. Essentially, the competitiveness of firms is based on a societal arrangement in which the interplay of competition-relevant factors, actors, and policies at different levels plus a frame of reference in which these levels can interact lead to competitive advantages. This book introduces the concept of systemic competitiveness. The authors point out that an economy's competitiveness rests on purposive and intermeshed measures at four system levels (the meta-, macro, meso-, and microlevels) and a multidimensional guidance concept consisting of competition, dialogue, and shared decision-making, integrating the most important groups of actors. The authors, Klaus Esser, Wolfgang Hillebrand, Dirk Messner and Jörg Meyer-Stamer, are at the German Development Institute, Berlin. (Verlagstext) ISBN 0714642517