Crucially, the European social model also enjoyed an amazingly low degree of external competition.
Mr Putin wants to protect Russian industries from external competition, including by increasing subsidies to farmers.
Regulators want to safeguard the strength and soundness of the banks they supervise, so they tend to shield them from the full force of domestic or external competition.
But Mr Bush argued that active government was quite compatible with conservative principles, provided that it was active government guided by sensible values and disciplined by internal and external competition.
Provide regular updates on shifts in the external environment (markets, competition, regulations, etc.) and when things change, explain why you will still win.
Because it lacks credible competition, Apple faces few external threats that we know of.
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This, we believe, is statistically significant evidence that technology-enabled collaboration with external stakeholders helps organizations gain market share from the competition .
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It oversees, among other things, external trade policy, the policing of internal free trade, competition policy and much environmental policy.
Deregulation would help, by making it easier to sell services (such as residential care) to the elderly, by freeing up finance to allow them to make better use of their savings, and by encouraging more competition in the domestic economy so that it can withstand the inevitable shocks to external trade.
Natural selection thrives on both competition and cooperation, but cooperation has been proven secondary, and is highly specific to contexts, usually external demands for establishing better survival chances.
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