Competitiveness and Related Concepts: A Logical Approach to Definition
Competitiveness and Related Concepts: A Logical Approach to Definition

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the paper is justification of the competitiveness concept definition as an object of quantitative measurements and related basic concepts of the theory of competitiveness based on their logical deduction from the minimum number of basic concepts and fundamentals of economic theory to ensure the internal consistency of the theory’s system of key concepts.In spite of a large number of studies devoted to the theory of competitiveness and the problem of its measurement in recent decades, the state of the conceptual and categorical apparatus of the theory and, first and foremost, the definition of the very concept of competitiveness, cannot be considered satisfactory. Based on the requirements of logic imposed on scientific concepts and systems of concepts in arbitrary scientific field, as well as on basic concepts of economic theory, the paper attempts to clarify the content and formulation of the competitiveness concept and to construct a system of key concepts of the theory through logical deduction. This has required clarification (revision) of a number of the theory‘s concepts formulations and, first of all, the concept of economic agent; allowed to identify and/or establish logical connections between them; determine the place of each of them in the concepts’ system; to discover concepts, which scientific consistency as well as expediency of inclusion into conceptual system of the theory of competitiveness are debatable; achieve rigorous definitions of these concepts and internal consistency of the concept system as a whole; identify the range of theoretical issues to be solved and/or more in-depth study, which logically follow from the proposed wording of key concepts’ definitions of the theory of competitiveness.

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