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Conceptualización de la competitividad

Resumen

This work is done in order to disclose some concepts of competitiveness from the opinion of various authors, and the controversy that the term has, being not specifically defined. The intention is to interpret the various definitions that have drawn the great centers of thought and authors in particular and in the same way try to reach conclusion about each conception to the end. As the reader of this article advancing fence, will find defined macroeconomic competitiveness, business level and some more generalized concepts, and is therefore that the term does not lend itself to reconcile a universal proposal for its definition. This document also contains some of the historical background to indicate the conceptual origin of competitiveness, when classical and neoclassical theories of economics were based, however, at that time the representatives of the previous economic models did not address describe punctually which is competitiveness, it is for this reason it was decided to address the concepts literally and settled in a fragment of the article, those who have emerged from the 80s to a more recent context. Overall this paper seeks results that competitiveness is understood as a variant applies in all cases and that despite its complexity is desirable that countries, organizations and man himself, build it for good purposes, such as improving growth and economic development to promote social welfare.