Competition in the Belgian manufacturing industry: how to succeed?
JEL Classifications D21 * L10 * L60 ********** An empirical survey conducted in 2006 among a large set of 520 Belgian companies belonging to the textile and clothing industry leads to better understand the basic foundations of competitiveness in a given industrial area. The wide google_ad_client = ‘pub-2905054723170537’; // substitute your client_id (pub-number) google_ad_channel = ‘6331884817’; google_ad_output = ‘js’; google_max_num_ads = ‘3’; google_ad_type = ‘text’; google_feedback = ‘on’; range of topics covered from a micro-economic point of view, the great diversity among individual situations, and the use of both quantitative and qualitative information incline us to set up a questionnaire in order to collect a maximum of data in various topics of firm’s strategic management, and to identify a large number of items correlated to competitiveness. More particularly, the top management of these firms pinpoints, among the key factors of success, the main sources of competitive adva
