Enhancing competences for competitive advantage

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 com...

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Other Authors Sanchez, Ron, Heene, Aimé
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2010.
SeriesAdvances in applied business strategy ; v. 12
Subjects
Competition.
Core competencies.
Business planning.
Strategic planning.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781848558779
1848558775
9781848558762
ISSN0749-6826 ;
Physical Description1 online zdroj (286 p.)

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Table of 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.

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