ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF TERRITORY COMPETITIVENESS AND DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABILITY

• Authors: Boronenko Vera , Drezgic Sasa
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Scientific novelty of the article is the analysis of interconnection of the territory competitiveness and development sustainability in the context of national identity and territorial capacity. For researching the economical determinants of the competitiveness and development sustainability the authors used resource approach based on the following methodological path: resources available at the territory can be transformed into assets as a result of its activation that, in its turn, can give to territory socially economic benefit, i.e., it becomes a territory capital. The application of the resource-asset-capital approach can be found in studies of different social sciences, sometimes revealing innovative resources or innovative forms of its activation and capitalization. The idea of the present paper - economic determinants of the territory competitiveness and development sustainability is, firstly, resources availability at the territory, and, secondly, ability of the territorial agents to transform them into territory capital. So, those resources which are available at the territory, but have not been transformed into territory capital, are not able to determine also competitiveness and development sustainability of this territory. The authors assume that weak development of social technologies for activation and capitalization of resources is the most important reason for hindering the competitiveness and development sustainability of Latvia’s regions. This hypothesis was proved by clarifying, within the limits of possibility of Latvia statistics, how much of the resources available in the regions are transformed into assets and further - into benefit carrying capital. By applying case study method in relation to the analysis of problems of sapropels resources’ of the lakes of Latgale region of Latvia’s activation and capitalization, the authors proved the significant role of social technologies for successful realization of material technologies and outlined the algorithm of social technologies for sapropels resource activation and capitalization.

Keywords

EN

territory competitiveness,; development sustainability,; resource-asset-capital approach,; activation and capitalization of; resources, social technologies

• Publisher: Daugavpils University, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Journal: Sociālo Zinātņu Vēstnesis
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 44-67

Contributors

author

Boronenko Vera

author

Drezgic Sasa

Identifiers

ISSN

1691-1881