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Record Nr.

UNINA9910677087003321

Autore

Garelli Stephane

Titolo

Top class competitors : how nations, firms, and individuals succeed in the new world of competitiveness / / Stephane Garelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, c2006

ISBN

1-119-20927-7

1-280-41111-2

9786610411115

0-470-03280-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Disciplina

302/.14

Soggetti

Competition

Work

Values

Performance

Economic development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-264) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Credits; Prologue; 1: Competitiveness: Changing the Mindset; 2: The Long and Winding Road to Competitiveness; 3: Working Out National Competitiveness: The Cube Theory; 4: The Extended Enterprise; 5: Competitiveness and Work: A Love-Hate Relationship; 6: Competitiveness and Value Systems; 7: Competent People and Competitive People: They Are Not The Same . . .; Epilogue: A Beautiful, Competitive Mind; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Three decades ago competitiveness was unheard-of; today it has taken the world by storm. But what is it? And will it last? In Top Class Competitors Stéphane Garelli - professor at IMD business school where he is also head of the World Competitiveness Centre, professor at the University of Lausanne, and former managing director of the World Economic Forum - defines competitiveness as the ability of a nation, company or individual to manage a set of disparate competencies to achieve prosperity. For instance, along with traditional policies a nation



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