{"id":4577,"date":"2013-06-17T09:01:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T06:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eva.fi\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2017-07-07T13:56:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T10:56:24","slug":"english-eva-analysis-symptoms-of-an-infection-this-is-what-business-leaders-think-about-19-elements-of-finnish-competitiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/blog\/2013\/06\/17\/english-eva-analysis-symptoms-of-an-infection-this-is-what-business-leaders-think-about-19-elements-of-finnish-competitiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"EVA Analysis: Symptoms of an infection &#8211; This is what business leaders think about 19 elements of Finnish competitiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finland&#8217;s competitiveness is being weakened by an infection. When competitiveness is divided into 19 elements, corporate decision-makers think that only five of them can be regarded as strengths in international competition. EVA measured the elements of competitiveness in a survey answered by 1 260 business leaders. EVA Analysis is written by director Matti Apunen (EVA) and researcher Mika Pajarinen (Etlatieto).<\/p>\n<p>The results indicate that Finland&#8217;s main strenghts are property rights and the pre-university education system.<\/p>\n<p>By far the greatest problem is deemed to be labour market rigidities in hiring new workers. Wages are not flexible enough with respect to productivity or market conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Large companies see the situation much more positively than small ones. Companies with operations abroad think the situation is better.<\/p>\n<p>EVA&#8217;s survey is based on a method used by Harvard Business School in their study in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Upload the analysis: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eva.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Symptoms-of-an-infection.pdf\">Symptoms of an infection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland&#8217;s competitiveness is being weakened by an infection. When competitiveness is divided into 19 elements, corporate decision-makers think that only five of them can be regarded as strengths in international competition. EVA measured the elements of competitiveness in a survey answered by 1 260 business leaders. EVA Analysis is written by director Matti Apunen (EVA) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":4578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[],"coauthors":[886],"class_list":["post-4577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10040,"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions\/10040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eva.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}