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Purpose
This study aims to contrast the disparities in optimal competitiveness configurations across international economies. Additionally, we analyse the competitive efficiency across firms of different performance endowments to identify distinctions and determine whether standardised or customised competitiveness configurations are optimal.


Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a multilevel regression model to confirm country-specific effects followed by a non-parametric "Benefit-of-the-Doubt" (BoD) method to conduct an international comparison of the competitive efficiency of top- and poor-performing firms across eight European and Latin American economies.


Findings
Not only are national ecosystems significant differentiators of competitive efficiency, but contras firm-level characteristics also explain these differences. It is found that more recent start-ups tend to experience significantly greater competitive efficiency. However, by separating the top-performing firms from the poor performers in each economy, it is found that the configurational outputs that potentially contribute most to competitive efficiency are not necessarily the same; while "technology" is a key factor for driving the competitive efficiency of top-performing firms, "market" drivers are most essential for improving the competitive potential of poor performers.


Originality/value
The configurational outputs that potentially contribute most to competitive efficiency are not necessarily universal.

The complexity of the entrepreneurial process calls for further research to disentangle its different impacts over the economic performance of territories.

The role of public administrations as leading agents for the provision of public services has gained increased attention as a result of the economic challenges that followed the economic downturn that hit most countries after 2008. These policy efforts have materialized in economic reforms that condition the funding & performance evaluation of public services. In parallel, scholars & policy observers have fueled the debate on what elements form the objective function of public service providers as well as on how to model the technology of public services for evaluation purposes. These concerns have become evident in the approach adopted by many academic studies dealing with efficiency assessments in a number of public services (e.g. education, health care, local governments). ; info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion

Entrepreneurship and the youth population interact to enhance economic performance, and actions oriented to bring down social barriers linked to the fear of entrepreneurial failure are as important as policies focused on access to finance or human capital formation.

Cover -- Guest editorial -- Determinants of competitiveness of the Czech SMEs: findings from the global competitiveness project -- A non-parametric analysis of the effect of the configuration of competitive pillars on competitive efficiency -- Understanding the connectionbetween SMEs' competitiveness and cash flow generation: an empirical analysis from Hungary -- The competitive efficiency of Costa Rican small and medium sized businesses: a data envelopment analysis approach -- Measuring competitiveness through the global competitiveness project framework: the Brazilian experience -- Managerial perceptions of the strategic relevance of resources and capabilities and its configuration for firm competitiveness: an exploratory study -- The effect of online activity on SMEs' competitiveness -- Analysis of the role of process innovation on export propensityin KIBS and non-KIBS firms in Colombia -- Resource-based view ofinnovation activity in SMEs: anempirical analysis based on the global competitiveness project -- An empirical study of the internal factors influencing the application of compensation incentives in SMEs -- Examining strategies behind universities' technology transfer portfolio: how different patterns of resource consumption can lead to similar technology transfer profiles -- How do stakeholders evaluate smart specialization policies defined for their regions? -- Assessing the effects of human capital composition, innovation portfolio and size on manufacturing firm performance -- The role of servitization in the capabilities - performance path.

AbstractThis study examines the impact that selected institutional factors have upon the entrepreneurial activity of women and men in rural areas. To do so, the results of the Adult Population Survey from the Spanish Global Entrepreneurship Monitor for the year 2004 have been used in a rare events logit regression model where rurality and sex have been introduced as interaction terms in order to identify any statistically significant distinctions of the impact of the selected independent variables upon rural women's entrepreneurial activity. The results indicate that compared to rural men, Spanish rural women tend to be less involved in entrepreneurial activities and are less optimistic about their abilities as entrepreneurs, although the fear of failure is not a significant impediment of their involvement in entrepreneurship.

Territorial servitization is the analysis of how manufacturing firms and knowledge-intensive business service (KIBS) sectors collaborate in working towards a renaissance of manufacturing competitiveness within regions of developed economies. This editorial note provides four insights. First, it sums up the existing body of knowledge on the topic. Second, it quantifies and maps the territorial servitization activity in Spanish regions. Third, it presents and reflects on the collection of five papers in this special issue, which bring new insights into how geographical proximity, innovation systems, and KIBS heterogeneity benefit our understanding of territorial servitization. Finally, the study provides a number of yet unresolved topics that deserve further academic attention.