DO THE DIAMONDS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES SHAPE THE COMPETITIVENESS OF FIRMS? A CASE STUDY OF THE SWEDISH ENGINEERING CONSULTING INDUSTRY
This research sought to explore the effect of foreign countries on firms' competitiveness, using Porter's Diamond as the framework for the empirical test. The empirical evidence was based on data collected from a sample of Swedish engineering consulting firms. The findings demonstrate that the Swedish Diamond has stronger impact on the competitiveness of Swedish engineering consulting firms than do the Diamonds of the host countries in which these firms are active. The effect of host countries' Diamond tend to increase as firms mature in their international activity and was found to have weak relation to the psychic distance between Sweden and the host countries.
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1998
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Authors: | NACHUM, LILACH |
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Scandinavian Journal of Management. - Elsevier, ISSN 0956-5221. - Vol. 14.1998, 4, p. 459-478
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Elsevier |
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