Measuring regional competitiveness: the case of Croatia

References

• Arndt, C., and C. Oman. 2006. Uses and abuses of governance indicators. Paris: OECD Development Centre.
   Google Scholar
• Banerjee, B., and M. Jarmuzek. 2009. Anatomy of regional disparities in the Slovak Republic. IMF Working Paper WP/09/145. Washington, DC: IMF.
   Google Scholar
• Barca, F. 2009. An agenda for reformed cohesion policy: A place-based approach for meeting European Union challenges and expectations. Independent report prepared at request of Danuta Huebner, EU Commissioner for Regional Policy. Brussels: DG REGIO, EC.
   Google Scholar
• Barna, K. 2007. Measuring regional competitiveness. Journal of Central European Agriculture 8, no. 3: 343–56.
   Google Scholar
• Berger, T., and G. Bristow. 2008. Benchmarking regional performance: A critical reflection on indices of competitiveness. Paper presented at the Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, May 27–29, at the University of Economics in Prague. http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/events/2008/may-prague/papers/Berger.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Borozan, D. 2008. Regional competitiveness: Some conceptual issues and policy implications. Interdisciplinary Management Research 4, no. 1: 50–63. Osijek: Faculty of Economics May.
   Google Scholar
• Bristow, G. 2005. Everyone is a winner: Problematising the discourse of regional competitiveness. Journal of Economic Geography 5, no. 3: 285–304.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bronisz, U., W. Heijmanand, and A. Miszcuk. 2008. Regional competitiveness in Poland: Creating an index. Jahrbuch fuer Regionalwissenschaft 28: 133–43. Springer.
   Google Scholar
• Cellini, R., and A. Soci. 2002. “Pop competitiveness.” Banca Nazionalle del Lavoro, Quarterly Review 55, no. 220: 71–101.
   Google Scholar
• Eurochambres. 2008. Regional competitiveness atlas: Edition 2008. Brussels: Eurochambres. http://www.eurochambres.eu/DocShare/docs/1/AJGOJKADAPGNOKIPAFEOOFCL3OY96C4Q4JH6QHU9YC5H/EUROCHAMBRES/docs/DLS/Atlas_of_Regional_Competitiveness-2008-00845-01.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• European Commission. 2005. Communication from the commission to the spring european council. working together for growth and jobs – A new start for the Lisbon Strategy. COM (2005) 24, Brussels.
   Google Scholar
• European Commission. 2006. Community strategic guidelines (2007–2013). http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docoffic/2007/osc/index_en.htm.
   Google Scholar
• European Commission. 2008a. Regions 2020: An assessment of future challenges for EU regions. Commission staff working document, November.
   Google Scholar
• European Commission. 2008b. Growing regions, growing Europe: Fifth progress report on economic and social cohesion, COM (2008) 371 final, Brussels.
   Google Scholar
• European Commission. 2009. Sixth progress report on economic and social cohesion. Report from the Commission to the European Parliament, COM (2009) 295 Final, Brussels.
   Google Scholar
• European Commission. 2010a. Europe 2020: A European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. COM (2010) 2020. European Commission: Brussels.
   Google Scholar
• European Commission. 2010b. European competitiveness report 2009. SEC (2009)1657 final. Commission staff working document, Brussels.
   Google Scholar
• Gardiner, B., M. Ron, and P. Tyler. 2004. Competitiveness, productivity and economic growth across the European Regions. Paper presented at the Regional Studies Association’s Regional Productivity Forum Seminar, January, in London, ( second revised version, July, 2004).
   Google Scholar
• Huggins, R., and W. Davies. 2006. European competiitveness index 2006–2007. Wales: Robert Huggings.
   Google Scholar
• Huggins, R., I. Hiro, W. Davies, and L. Shougu. 2008. World knowledge competitiveness index 2008. Cardiff: Centre for International Competitiveness.
   Google Scholar
• Jurlin, K., and N. Čučković. 2010. comparative analyses of the quality of European Institutions 2003–2009: Convergence or divergence? Financial Theory and Practice 34, no. 1: 71–98. Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb.
   Google Scholar
• Kitson, M., R. Martin, and P. Tyler. 2004. Regional competitiveness: An elusive yet key concept? Regional Studies 38, no. 9: 991–9.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kitson, M., R. Martin, and P. Tyler. 2008. The regional competitiveness debate. Programme on regional innovation. Cambridge: The Cambridge-MIT Institute.
   Google Scholar
• Knack, S. 2006. Measuring corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: A critique of the cross country indicators, Policy Research Department Working Paper No. 3958. Washington, DC: The World Bank.
   Google Scholar
• Krugman, P. 1996. “Making sense of competitiveness debate.” Oxford Review of Economic Policy 12, no. 3: 17–23.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lalinsky, T., and M. Šuster. 2006. “Convergence and regional cohesion in Slovakia.” BIATEC 14, no. 9: 7–14. National Bank of Slovakia, Bratislava.
   Google Scholar
• Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds of Republic of Croatia. 2012. Operational program for regional competitiveness 2007–2013. http://www.mrrfeu.hr/UserDocsImages/Savjetovanje%20sa%20zainteresiranom%20javno%C5%A1%C4%87u/RCOP_October%202012_DRAFT_EK_21_02_2013.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Morgan, K. 2004. The exaggerated death of geography: Learning, proximity and territorial innovation system. Journal of Economic Geography, no. 4: 3–22.
   Google Scholar
• National Competitiveness Council (NCC) and UNDP. 2008. Regional competitiveness index of Croatia 2007. http://www.konkurentnost.hr/Default.aspx?sec=142.
   Google Scholar
• National Competitiveness Council (NCC) and UNDP. 2011. Regional competitiveness index of Croatia 2010. http://www.undp.hr/upload/file/271/135894/FILENAME/NVK_2010_EN_FIN.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• OECD. 2005. Building competitive regions – Strategies and governance. Paris: OECD.
   Google Scholar
• OECD. 2009. Governing regional development policies – The use of development indicators. Paris: OECD.
   Google Scholar
• Polenske, K.R. 2004. Competition, collaboration and cooperation: An uneasy triangle in networks of firms and regions. Regional Studies 38, no. 9: 1029–43.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Porter, M. 1990. The competitive advantages of nations. London: Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Porter, M.E. 2001. Regions and the new economics of competition. In Global City Regions, ed. A.J. Scott, 139–52. Oxford: Blackwell.
   Google Scholar
• Porter, M.E. 2003. The economic performance of regions. Regional Studies 37, no. 6–7: 549–78.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• REDEA. 2011. Strategy for development of Medimurje County 2011–2013. http://zrs.redea.hr/razvojna_strategija.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• RERASD. 2011. Strategy for development of Split-Dalmatia County 2011–2013. http://www.rera.hr/Portals/0/docs/javni-poziv-zrs-sdz/Razvojna%20strategija%20SDŽ%202011-2013.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Storper, M. 1997. The regional world. New York: Guilford Press.
   Google Scholar
• Williams, A., and A. Siddique. 2008. The use (and abuse) of governance indicators in economics: A review. Economics of Governance 9, no. 2: 131–75.
   Google Scholar
• World Bank. 2009. Croatia’s EU convergence report: Reaching and sustaining higher rates of economic growth. Vol II. Full Report, Report No. 48879-HR.
   Google Scholar
• World Economic Forum. 2010. Global competitiveness report 2010–2011. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GlobalCompetitivenessReport_2010-11.pdf.
   Google Scholar