Enhancing competences for competitive advantage / edited by Ron Sanchez, Aimé Heene.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sanchez, Ron.

Heene, Aimé.

Series:

Advances in applied business strategy ; v. 12

Advances in applied business strategy, 0749-6826 ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Competition.

Core competencies.

Business planning.

Strategic planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Group Pub. Ltd., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume explores ways in which an organization's existing competences can be enhanced as sources of competitive advantage - either enduring or intendedly transitional. Competence enhancing activities considered include political lobbying to extend the lifetime and value of a firm's competences, expanding services to enhance the value of manufacturing capabilities, initiating knowledge management projects, strategically adapting a firm's governance structures to take advantage of government policy initiatives, staging development of competences in internationalization processes, improving capabilities in managing alliances, understanding the factors conducive to entrepreneurial action-taking, and using individual competency development in self-managing processes for organizational competence building.

Contents:

Introduction / Ron Sanchez

Lobbying: strategies to make a firm's competences generate value / Martin Gersch, Christian Goeke, and Jörg Freiling

Competence-based strategies of service transition / Tim Kessler and Michael Stephan

Enhancing the inflow of knowledge: elaborating the absorptive capacity cycle in SMEs / Roberto Filippini, Wolfgang H. Güttel, and Anna Nosella

Toyota's competitive advantage: path dependency, dynamic capabilities, and sources of inimitability - a contrastive study with Nissan / Evelyn Anderson

Toward the theory of temporary competitive advantage in internationalization / Petri Ahokangas, Anita Juho, and Lauri Haapanen

Relational quality, alliance capability, and alliance performance: an integrated framework / Koen H. Heimeriks and Melanie Schreiner / How to build alliance capability: a life cycle approach / Kim Sluyts, Rudy Martens, and Paul Matthyssens

Modeling entrepreneurial action choice: from intent through rhetoric to action / Janice A. Black, Richard L. Oliver, and Lori D. Paris

Self-organization of competence development and the role of managers / Martin Kröll.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786612661501

9781282661509

1282661507

9781848558779

1848558775

OCLC:

644765439