{"id":354,"date":"2014-07-16T14:09:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T14:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/xrambla\/?p=354"},"modified":"2014-07-18T14:49:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T14:49:35","slug":"globalisation-and-competitiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/xrambla\/2014\/07\/16\/globalisation-and-competitiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Competitiveness according to the World Economic Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOCIAL CHANGE AND GLOBALISATION (Sociology &amp; International students)<\/p>\n<p>The World Economic Forum has advanced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weforum.org\/issues\/global-competitiveness\">a definition and a measure of competitiveness<\/a> that attributes economic prosperity to complex networks of societal interconnections. On these grounds the WEF elaborates a worldwide ranking of countries that you can browse in the same website.<\/p>\n<p>A number of questions arise:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; How can we account for the specific effect of the twelve factors included in the index? Are all the possible hypotheses logically coherent?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Can international strategic plans for development enact these interconnections? <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/resource-efficient-europe\/\">Europe 2020<\/a> strategy and UNDP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undp.org\/content\/undp\/en\/home\/ourwork\/capacitybuilding\/overview\/\">Capability Development<\/a> program posit two very relevant case studies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NZt6kUKE-88\">Michael Porter&#8217;s theory<\/a>\u00a0 reverberates with this concept of competitiveness. Do modernisation and institutionalist accounts of social change inspire this theory?<\/p>\n<p>SOCIETAT DE LA INFORMACI\u00d3 (Empresa i Tecnologia &amp; Gesti\u00f3 Aeron\u00e0utica)<\/p>\n<p>El F\u00f2rum Econ\u00f2mic Mundial ha avan\u00e7at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weforum.org\/issues\/global-competitiveness\"> una definici\u00f3 i una mesura de la competitivitat\u00a0<\/a> que atribueix la prosperitat econ\u00f2mica a unes complexes xarxes d&#8217;interelacions que afecten el conjunt de les societats. Sobre aquesta base el FEM elabora un r\u00e0nquing mundial de pa\u00efsos que podeu consultar al seu mateix web.<\/p>\n<p>Tot plegat suggereix un seguit de preguntes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Com podem observar l&#8217;efecte dels dotze factors inclosos a l&#8217;\u00edndex? \u00c9s clara la coher\u00e8ncia l\u00f2gica de totes les possibles hip\u00f2tesis?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Poden els plans estrat\u00e8gics internacionals per al desenvolupament activar aquestes interconnexions? L&#8217;estrat\u00e8ia <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/resource-efficient-europe\/\">Europa 2020<\/a> i el programa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undp.org\/content\/undp\/en\/home\/ourwork\/capacitybuilding\/overview\/\">Capability Development<\/a> del PNUD ens ofereixen dos casos d&#8217;estudi for\u00e7a significatius.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; El disseny de la tecnologia contribueix a engegar aquestes interconnexions? Els sistemes de transport hi poden contribuir tamb\u00e9 d&#8217;alguna manera?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOCIAL CHANGE AND GLOBALISATION (Sociology &amp; International students) The World Economic Forum has advanced a definition and a measure of competitiveness that attributes economic prosperity to complex networks of societal interconnections. On these grounds the WEF elaborates a worldwide ranking of countries that you can browse in the same website. A number of questions arise: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2890,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/xrambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/xrambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/xrambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/xrambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/xrambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/xrambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/xrambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/xrambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/xrambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/xrambla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}