A Study on the National Competitiveness Assessment of the IMD Baksoo Kim·Yunjong Wang·Dongwha Shin·Hyongkun Lee
Korea's national competitiveness, based on The World Competitiveness Yearbook 1999 of the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), has continually declined over the past five years. In particular, it is a genuine surprise that our national competitiveness is remarkably inferior to that of countries which experienced the recent financial crisis such as Malaysia and Thailand as well as competitors like Taiwan and even China.

National competitiveness may be defined as a country's overall capability to create the most effective social structure, institutions and policies that allow its company within the national boundary to be more competitive in the world market. Therefore, our diminished ranking brings us to admit that our country has gradually lost its competitiveness in the global market.

The ranking of national competitiveness, as given by the IMD, is utilized as a useful source of information when multinational companies seek investment opportunities. Since Korea is currently, and urgently, focusing on the policy issue of attracting foreign direct investment, our diminished competitiveness is a serious problem. Also, in the event that our national competitiveness continues to decline, or remains at a low level, domestic companies would be inclined to move their production sites abroad. This is simply because there is no attraction in maintaining business operations in a country with a bad business climate. In addition, if a hollowing out phenomenon occurs, both a sharp increase in unemployment and in the long term a collapse of the very foundations of manufacturing would result. Therefore, we have to improve our competitiveness both to successfully compete with other countries in the world market, through maximizing the competitiveness of Korean companies, and to attract global multinational companies.

However, there exist some views suggesting that the continual decrease in our level of competitiveness is basically caused not only by our internal problems but may, in fact, also be falsely reported due to the methodology used by the IMD. Namely, there exist a number of questions pertaining to the credibility of the methodology of the IMD. According to our study, it has become apparent that the competitiveness methodology of the IMD is problematic. Albeit some problems with the methodology used by the IMD, it is very important for us to recognize, and focus on, the issues which we can address in order to better promote our state of national competitiveness. That is, the IMD assessment gives us a lot to think about and to improve upon.

With this critical, yet analytical, approach in mind, our study deliberates on the definitions and determinants of national competitiveness, the methodology of the IMD, and improvements thereof, in addition to our current state of competitiveness as assessed by the IMD.

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要約

Ⅰ 서론

Ⅱ 국가경쟁력의 개념과 IMD의 평가방법
1. 국가경쟁력의 개념
2. IMD의 국가경쟁력 평가방법
3. IMD 평가방법의 항목별 상세 검토
4. IMD 국가경쟁력 평가의 유용성
5. WEF 평가방법과의 비교

Ⅲ 우리나라의 국가경쟁력 현황
1. 우리나라의 국가경쟁력 추이 및 구조
2. 국가경쟁력 하락의 원인분석

Ⅳ 국가경쟁력 제고 방안
1. 국가경쟁력 강화를 위한 정책 방향
2. 전략적 방안
3. 정책적 방안

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