“…According to Ferraz et al (1997), two concepts of competitiveness may be possible: a) Competitiveness seen as efficiency which means the company's ability to produce products/services with maximum performance and that is expressed, in general, by price and cost indicators, technical coefficients or productivity; and (b) Competitiveness seen as the performance which means it is the market that defines the competitiveness of companies when purchasing their products/services, preferably to other companies, validating the company's marketing, commercial and production actions, and it may be expressed as market share, the ability to serve the market or product/service quality and differentiation capacity. Therefore, the literature review (Feldmann, Jacomossi, Barrichelo, & Morano, 2019; Ferreira et al, 2019; Jacoski et al, 2014; Oliveira, Echeveste, & Cortimiglia, 2018; Quandt et al, 2019; Santos, Afonseca, Nuno Lopes, & Murmura, 2018) suggests a deeper investigation in the understanding of the most influential factors when analysing the relationship between innovativeness and competitiveness, especially in the electric and electronic industry. So, this study has chosen to use competitiveness as performance because we use variables to measure the performance like the percent variation of the company's revenue, the respondent's perception about the company's competitive advantage over competitors, the percent variation of company's market share, and the percent variation of R&D people inside the company.…”