Competitiveness - The disconnect between policy and practice

Kamal Qazi; A. C. Chinta; Z. McClelland

Competitiveness - The disconnect between policy and practice

Kamal Qazi, A. C. Chinta, Z. McClelland

Civil Engineering and Management

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Abstract

It is argued that regional policy should be derived from the local firms and their needs for developing competitiveness. Firms are symbolic concepts of social systems that are intertwined in structures of power and domination. In this instance, where the focus of interest was the connection and disconnection of policy and practice in the context of competitiveness as viewed by the practitioner, the choice of appropriate theory was structured by the need to tread a fine line between deterministic accounts of practice by the agent and individualistic accounts which neglect the contextual importance of the practitioner. This implied that views on firms that are primarily systematic, structural or processual must be rejected for this study.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	British Academy of Management (BAM2017) Conference proceedings
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	British Academy of Management
Publication status	Published - Sept 2017
Event	British Academy of Management 2017 - University of Warrick, Coventry, United Kingdom Duration: 5 Sept 2017 → 8 Sept 2017

Conference

Conference	British Academy of Management 2017
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Coventry
Period	5/09/17 → 8/09/17

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