Implications of change management in public administration

Revista Tinerilor Economişti (The Young Economists Journal)
between the national and the world economy, in the case of the financial-banking
system, at the same time with the free movement of goods and services.
As a result of the world exchange and cooperation, and of the specialization in
fields which have comparative advantages, the countries can accelerate the rhythm of
growth and they can expand their range of products. They will be interested to increase
their degree of competitiveness in those fields where they have comparative
advantages. This thing can be accomplished only if those countries have globally
restructured the internal socio-economic system in order to make it more competitive.
Even if competitiveness is demonstrated and it is sustained on the world market, it is
not real unless it has been obtained a certain economic and social efficiency on the
internal market.
In order to identify the industrial sectors with development perspective and to
create the sector strategies and the commercial policies which can create the
circumstances for the efficient capitalization of those perspectives, we can use a series
of indicators in order to assess the competitive advantages on the level of the industry,
sectors and groups of products.
Such an indicator is RCA – revealed comparative advantage, which outlines the
weight of a sector in the total export of goods and services, compared with its weight in
the import of goods and services. This indicator is determined for each industrial sector
according to the export of internal production and the import which compete the
internal production and not with the import of intermediate goods for internal
production. It can be calculated according to the following formula:
RCA i
ln
118
Ei
Ii E
I
where: RCA
i
= revealed comparative advantage of sector i;
Ei, Ii = export, respectively import of sector i;
E, I = exports, respectively total of imports.
If the size of this indicator is positive, then we can talk of a comparative
advantage for the sector i, and if it is negative then we have a negative comparative
advantage. At the same time, the higher its value, the higher is the comparative
advantage for the analyzed sector.
In what competitiveness is concerned, the RCA indicator is more significant
than the average of the export of the sector in the total production, because it reflects
the intensity of the orientation of the sector both towards export and towards import.
The evolution of this indicator in the period 2006-2008 points out the fact that
Romania has a relatively reduced degree of competitiveness of the industrial products,
aspect, pointed out by the values registered by the revealed comparative advantage
indicator.
From the analysis of the Romanian foreign trade one can notice that in 2006
only 9 industries were registering positive values of the revealed comparative advantage
indicator, pointing out a certain comparative advantage in those sectors, and in the years
2007 and 2008 their number increased to 10, after including tobacco in this category.
This growth is insignificant, taking into account the fact that most of the sectors of
activity are characterized through negative values of this indicator so there is a lack of
comparative advantage.