Competitiveness and its Predecessors – a 500-year Cross-national Perspective Eric S. Reinert

This report discusses the conceptualization and definition of competitiveness, a commonly misused term, which is central for understanding the distribution of wealth, both nationally and globally.

Competitiveness – ’corporate grafitti’ invades economic theory

Even a casual observer of the practice and science of management will not fail to notice how a continuous flow of new concepts are born, become fashionable, and then disappear from management jargon. A recent article in Financial Times (1, p. 10) suggests the term ’corporate grafitti’ – or ’management grafitti’ – to describe the unthinking use of buzz-words. Management language is ‘opaque, ugly, and clichéridden’, FT claims. ‘Management grafitti’ is intended as the catch-phrase to end all catch-phrases.

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