Title :
Evaluation on Competitiveness of Modern Service Industry Based on Catastrophe Theory
Author :
Liu Xiang-dong ; Jiang Hong-li ; Zhao Hui-liang ; Ye Chun-hua
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China
Abstract :
Enhancing competitiveness of modern service industry is great important to promote economic and social development. So it is necessary to evaluate the competitiveness of city modern service industry. After introducing catastrophe theory, we elaborate the evaluation approach based on the catastrophe theory and make use it to evaluate competitiveness of modern service industry. At last, we do an empirical analysis of competitiveness of modern service industry by using actual data of modern service industry of Guangzhou. The empirical results show that the evaluation method is reasonable, and it provides a new way for evaluation on competitiveness of modern service industry.
Keywords :
catastrophe theory; economics; service industries; catastrophe theory; competitiveness evaluation; economic development; modern service industry; social development; Cities and towns; Industrial economics; Industries; Manufacturing; Mathematical model; Risk management;
Conference_Titel :
Internet Technology and Applications, 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5142-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5143-2
DOI :
10.1109/ITAPP.2010.5566516