Evolution of the Methodology of Researching the Competitive Advantages of Leadership

Abstract

The article is aimed at researching the evolution of methodological issues of competitive leadership of countries, which in the conditions of globalization acquires a qualitatively new content and format and «are dissolved» in numerous theoretical-methodological and applied dimensions. Researching the evolution of the category of «competitive leadership» gives grounds to assert that it originated in the depths of philosophical, political, historical, psychological, sociological and legal sciences and is a product of historical development of the world economy. As result, the essential content of this concept experienced constant transformations under the influence of irreversible, directed and logical changes in the structural dynamics of the international economic system. This alone explains the fact that in the theoretical qualification of this category as, particularly, in its conceptual operationalization, there always existed significant methodological difficulties. They are conditioned by permanent changes in the disposition of States in the world economic system along with rapid expansion and complexity of the relationships between them, as well as by growth of the centripetal power lines in the interaction of national economies with the fundamental modifications of the structural properties of the international economic system as a logical result of the interaction of large countries.

Keywords

• research methodology
• competitive advantages
• leadership
• States
• national economies
• globalization