This book explores how companies combine technological innovation and competitive actions that create new opportunities for business growth in the international market. The complexity of designing today's technology platforms requires profound knowledge in multiple areas. Technology development and commercialization as an ongoing competitive process involves enabling and inhibiting mechanisms, which govern the speed and acceleration of technological innovation. To compete more effectively, potential competitors are using coopetition and pooling their resources for shared gain in areas where they do not compete directly. Thus, a thorough examination of the current paradigms, theories, and frameworks is needed to increase our understanding of the technology-innovation-competitiveness linkages of business growth. This book brings together recent developments and methodological contributions within technological innovation, international competitiveness, and business growth that bridge the existing gaps and simultaneously advances the debate on this research topic. João J. M. Ferreira is Associate Professor at the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal. He holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain. Currently, he is the scientific coordinator of the UBI Research Unit for Business Sciences (NECE), Portugal. His research interests include strategy, competitiveness and entrepreneurship Sérgio J. Teixeira is Assistant Professor and researcher at the Higher Institute of Administration and Languages - ISAL, Portugal He is an integrated member of the Research Unit for Business Sciences (NECE-UBI), Covilhã, and collaborator of the CITUR Research Unit, Leiria, Portugal, and Coordinator of the ISAL Research Center. His research interest includes competitiveness, entrepreneurship and innovation in tourism. Hussain G. Rammal is Associate Professor of International Business & Strategy at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Review of International Business and Strategy and founding editor of the Emerging Issues in International Business and Global Strategy book series. Hussain's research interests include knowledge management, service innovation, and internationalization strategies of firms.

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João J. M. Ferreira is Associate Professor at the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal. He holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain. Currently, he is the scientific coordinator of the UBI Research Unit for Business Sciences (NECE), Portugal. His research interests include strategy, competitiveness and entrepreneurship Sérgio J. Teixeira is Assistant Professor and researcher at the Higher Institute of Administration and Languages ISAL, Portugal He is an integrated member of the Research Unit for Business Sciences (NECE-UBI), Covilhã, and collaborator of the CITUR Research Unit, Leiria, Portugal, and Coordinator of the ISAL Research Center. His research interest includes competitiveness, entrepreneurship and innovation in tourism.

Hussain G. Rammal is Associate Professor of International Business & Strategy at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Review of International Business and Strategy and founding editor of the Emerging Issues in International Business and Global Strategy book series. Hussain's research interests include knowledge management, service innovation, and internationalization strategies of firms.

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This book explores how companies combine technological innovation and competitive actions that create new opportunities for business growth in the international market. The complexity of designing today's technology platforms requires profound knowledge in multiple areas. Technology development and commercialization as an ongoing competitive process involves enabling and inhibiting mechanisms, which govern the speed and acceleration of technological innovation. To compete more effectively, potential competitors are using coopetition and pooling their resources for shared gain in areas where they do not compete directly. Thus, a thorough examination of the current paradigms, theories, and frameworks is needed to increase our understanding of the technology-innovation-competitiveness linkages of business growth. This book brings together recent developments and methodological contributions within technological innovation, international competitiveness, and business growth that bridge the existing gaps and simultaneously advances the debate on this research topic.

João J. M. Ferreira is Associate Professor at the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal. He holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain. Currently, he is the scientific coordinator of the UBI Research Unit for Business Sciences (NECE), Portugal. His research interests include strategy, competitiveness and entrepreneurship
Sérgio J. Teixeira is Assistant Professor and researcher at the Higher Institute of Administration and Languages ISAL, Portugal He is an integrated member of the Research Unit for Business Sciences (NECE-UBI), Covilhã, and collaborator of the CITUR Research Unit, Leiria, Portugal, and Coordinator of the ISAL Research Center. His research interest includes competitiveness, entrepreneurship and innovation in tourism.

Hussain G. Rammal is Associate Professor of International Business & Strategy at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Review of International Business and Strategy and founding editor of the Emerging Issues in International Business and Global Strategy book series. Hussain's research interests include knowledge management, service innovation, and internationalization strategies of firms.

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Chapter 1:

Technological Innovation and International Competitiveness for Business Growth: State-of-the-art****

João J. Ferreira

jjmf@doe.upv.es

University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Sérgio J. Teixeira

jesusteixeira1984@gmail.com

University of Madeira, Portugal ****

Hussain G. Rammal hrammal@gmail.com

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Not published

Chapter 2:

Cross-national teams and the remote management of team members in Indian IT MNCs: The onsite-offshore phenomenon

Parth Patel

parth.patel@ncl.ac.uk

Newcastle University Business School, UK

Not published

Chapter 3:

Brazilian National Development Bank' impact on the steel industry's efficiency: a two-stage Malmquist model usage

**Ricardo Kalil Moraes**

ricardo.kalil@coppead.ufrj.br **

Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil

Peter Fernandes Wanke

peter@coppead.ufrj.br

Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil

Not published

Chapter 4:

New approaches to the analysis of competitiveness in the tourism sector. The necessary balance between growth and respect for the locals

José María Martín Martín

josemaria.martin@unir.net

University of La Rioja, Spain

José Manuel Guaita Martinez

josemanuel.guaita@campusviu.es

Valencian International University, Spain**

José Antonio Salinas Fernández

jasalinas@ugr.es

University of Granada, Spain

Domingo Enrique Ribeiro Soriano
domingo.ribeiro@uv.es

Universitat de València, Spain

Not published

Chapter 5:

Internal Barriers to the Brazilian Economy Achieving External Compet…