“…In the market economy, competition is a fundamental requirement of business activity and allocation mechanism of economic resources in place. Competitiveness consists in an effective operation of businesses in a turbulent competitive environment (Wolak-Tuzimek et al, 2021, p. 284) Competitiveness has a range of aspects (Łukiewska, Juchniewicz, 2021) rooted in economics, management, history, politics, and culture and is a complex, multidimensional and relative notion whose meaning changes over time and depends on a context, is synonymous with economic power and addressed at diverse levels, including the level of a nation (Doan, 2021;Terzić, 2021), region (Le, Duy, 2021), sector (Cong, Thu, 2020;Srivastava et al, 2006), and enterprise (Mat, Cevger, 2022;Maráková et al, 2021).…”