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Abstract

The evolution of the competitiveness concept development: the modernization process perspective

This article presents the competitiveness concept development from the past to the ever present through the modernization process perspective aimed at building up a nation’s economic growth. The modernization process, originated from western countries, is later on the prototype of economic development in developing countries. The article focuses illuminating the evolution of changes in economic development process via a linear perspective in order to be comprehensible and raise awareness of competitiveness development based on the equity of dimensions. Such evolution of changes starts from the significant role of the political dimension before it is reduced due to the economic development process in which the political dimension is separated from the economic dimension. Then, the social dimension has been involved to increase competitiveness. Later, there has been discovered that a sustainability of competitiveness requires as well the environmental dimension in the development process through the shared value creation.