Enhancing competences for competitive advantage

• Other Authors: Sanchez, Ron., Heene, Aimé.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2010.
• Series: Advances in applied business strategy ; v. 12
• Subjects: Competition.; Core competencies.; Business planning.; Strategic planning.; Business strategy.; Operational research.; Business & Economics > Strategic Planning.; Business & Economics > Organizational Behaviour.; Business & Economics > Operations Research.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781848558779 (electronic bk.) : 1848558775 (electronic bk.) : 9781848558762 (hbk.)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Item Description: Description based on print version record.
• ISSN: 0749-6826

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.