Abstract
The woodworking industry is one of the most critical components of the forest sector in Ukraine and world countries. This paper aims to develop directions for ensuring the competitiveness of the woodworking industry in the post-pandemic period. The study resulted in the elaboration of the theoretical framework for identifying the main substantive determinants of industrial competitiveness in world countries through bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer v.1.6.10. The conducted cluster analysis provided for the identification of 4 clusters of scientific research dealing with issues of industrial competitiveness (Cluster 1 is focused on the formation of a competitive business strategy for the development of industrial enterprises; Cluster 2 – on the development of the export-import potential of industrial enterprises; Cluster 3 – on the identification of relationships between ensuring industrial competitiveness and globalisation processes; Cluster 4 – on the implementation of Industry 4.0 and innovative technologies). The obtained theoretical conclusions and generalisations became the basis for forming a system of indicators for assessing the competitiveness of economic activities in the country's woodworking industry. An integrated assessment of the competitiveness of the woodworking industry in Ukraine and world countries was carried out. Using cluster analysis (k-means), world countries, including Ukraine, were clustered according to the value of composite indicators for assessing the competitiveness of individual economic activities in the woodworking industry. Ukraine fell into the cluster characterised by the high competitiveness of individual economic activities in the woodworking industry. Measures were formulated to ensure the competitiveness of the Ukrainian woodworking industry in the post-pandemic period.
Highlights
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives and health of people and the movement of goods, labour, consumption, transportation, and distribution of resources
Summarising the results of the study of the modern scientific literature, the main substantive determinants of competitiveness of the country's industry were identified through bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer v.1.6.10
The formalisation of contextual features of the studied concept is based on the bibliometric analysis results of 24183 scientific publications indexed in the Scopus scientometric database and 29903 ones indexed in Web of Science for the period 1971-2021, was carried out
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives and health of people and the movement of goods, labour, consumption, transportation, and distribution of resources. The problem of ensuring the competitiveness of the industrial sector is becoming increasingly pressing in the post-pandemic period. The woodworking industry is one of the essential components of the forest sector in Ukraine and world countries: it includes enterprises engaged in mechanical and chemomechanical pulping, wood processing and is a critical element of the technological chain: forest cultivation–logging–processing–manufacturing of final products. The woodworking industry of any country across the world includes economic activities that differ in terms of complexity of production technologies, gross value added, and efficiency both for the country's economy as a whole and individual business entities. The urgency of ensuring the competitiveness of objects at different levels of the hierarchy is evidenced by the frequency of citation of publications in this field in the Scopus scientometric database. The top five most cited publications on the problem of competitiveness, indexed in the Scopus database during 1990–2021, includes the following works: D. Jansen et al (2006) [5] – 1656 citations
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