Explanation of Competitiveness Strategies of Tehran City

Abstract

Today, one of the important issues of urban economy, is the intense competition between cities in the global scale and a lot of of cities are competing with one another to attract foreign investment and become more powerful. with that point of view, this article is discussing and analysing the competitiveness strategies of Tehran city. In this study there are two stages for our approach. In the first stage, we compared the situation of Tehran city from point of view of nine variables of competitiveness. This variables are: economic growth, GDP, cost of living, quality of living, information infrastructure and urban economic, economic risks and urban security, efficiency of business environment, efficiency of financial services environment and business communications which have an influence on the tehran competitiveness index. In the second stage by using the results of analysis of the above mentioned variables in previous stage, the appropriate competitive strategy with SPACE and SWOT matrix is choosen for Tehran city. The population of the study includes seventy under development cities. Findings of the research show that the best competitive strategy for the Tehran city is the defensive situation.

Keywords

• city competitiveness index
• swot matrix
• space matrix