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Development of Lithuanian Universal Postal Services Provider’s Competitiveness Maintenance Model

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Competitiveness occurs differently at different levels, and it is possible to analyse it in company, industry, state, block, country regions, international company, international sale, country local sales and in other aspects. In most cases, the scientists refer to company’s industry (sectors) or the country’s competitiveness. Foreign and Lithuanian scientists have created a variety of competitiveness assessment methodologies. This chapter overviews competitiveness maintenance methods and models that are used by scientists mostly.

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    Vaida Pilinkienė, Vilma Deltuvaitė, Asta Daunorienė & Vaidas Gaidelys

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Pilinkienė, V., Deltuvaitė, V., Daunorienė, A., Gaidelys, V. (2017). Development of Lithuanian Universal Postal Services Provider’s Competitiveness Maintenance Model. In: Competitiveness Creation and Maintenance in the Postal Services Industry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31906-3_7

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