Ph. D. Paper consists of an introduction, the content which is outlined in 3 main chapters, conclusions and proposals, bibliography, and Annexes. In Chapter 1 the essence of the competitiveness and its legal-economic aspects as well as its importance in regard to the competitiveness based management as a component of the system ensuring competitive entrepreneurship for manufacturing wood products in Latvia as a condition for sustainable economic development, is discussed. Figures of the Latvian economy related to the manufacturing of wood products are described in Chapter 1. The overall description of the manufacturing of wood products in Latvia is given there as well. The author, within the framework of this chapter, also analyses the impact of the wood production industry to the national economy showing the main operational indicators, structure of the timber resource extraction and consumption as well as identifying foreign trade indicators characterizing the dynamics and its importance towards the competitiveness-based management. Features of the competitiveness concept in manufacturing wood products, its contents and factors affecting the competitiveness, the interference of the competitiveness-based management methods are described by the author in Chapter 2 as well as the competitiveness based strategic management providing opportunities for production of the wood products in Latvia are assessed. Chapter 3 discusses development of scientific and practical solutions related to the manufacturing of wood products. On the basis of the complex assessment of the results obtained from the survey regarding the entrepreneur competence implementing competitiveness based management in manufacturing wood products, the author gives solutions for the increase of the competitiveness, considering the most important tools for competitiveness-driven management in wood production market in Latvia. Within the framework of this chapter, the author provides scientific and practical solutions for increase of the competitiveness based strategic management considering the main important tools for implementation of competitiveness based management in wood production industry in Latvia. There are 182 pages, without annexes, in this Paper. In the research there are 104 figures, 34 tables, 15 formulas and 11 Annexes, which illustrate and explain the content of the research, included. For the PhD Paper development 162 sources of information in Latvian, English and Russian languages have been used.