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Competitiveness Today: Is Croatia Addressing Ongoing Global Challenges?

Competitiveness has been a key term for decision makers around the globe for achieving economic growth and prosperity since the 1990s and Porter’s pioneering work “The Competitive Advantage of Nations”. Although criticized for being a flashy synonym for productivity and other methodological shortcomings, Porter’s theoretical framework became a base for competitiveness projects and reform implementation in many countries. Croatia joined the Competitiveness Initiative at the beginning of the new millennium, establishing the National Competitiveness Council and incorporating Croatia in the global competitiveness benchmarks of both IMD World Competitiveness Centre and WEF Global Competitiveness Programme. Among other relevant issues, this paper explores key determinants and pillars of Croatia’s competitiveness. Based on the analysis of secondary data and a case study, this work aims to serve two purposes. First, it is to disentangle the effects of the Croatian competitiveness project and second, to research the extent to which Croatia is addressing contemporary global competitiveness agenda.

competitiveness ; globalisation ; prosperity

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