Enhancing competences for competitive advantage [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ron Sanchez, Aimé Heene

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459271303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bingley, U.K., : Emerald Group Pub. Ltd., 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-66150-7; 9786612661501; 1-84855-877-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Collana: Advances in applied business strategy, , 0749-6826 ; ; v. 12
• Altri autori (Persone): SanchezRon; HeeneAimé
• Disciplina: 658.4012
• Soggetti: Competition; Core competencies; Business planning; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Enhancing Competences for Competitive Advantage; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1. Lobbying: strategies to make a firm's competences generate value; Chapter 2. Competence-based strategies of service transition; Chapter 3. Enhancing the inflow of knowledge: elaborating the absorptive capacity cycle in SMEs; Chapter 4. Toyota's competitive advantage: path dependency, dynamic capabilities, and sources of inimitability - a contrastive study with Nissan; Chapter 5. Toward the theory of temporary competitive advantage in internationalization; Chapter 6. Relational quality, alliance capability, and alliance performance: an integrated frameworkChapter 7. How to build alliance capability: A life cycle approach; Chapter 8. Modeling entrepreneurial action choice: from intent through rhetoric to action; Chapter 9. Self-organization of competency development and the role of managers
• Sommario/riassunto: 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

Skills of the "unskilled" : work and mobility among Mexican migrants / / Jacqueline Maria Hagan, Rubén Hernández-León, Jean-Luc Demonsant

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464111303321
• Autore: Hagan Jacqueline Maria <1954->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-520-28373-2; 0-520-95950-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.5/440896872073
• Soggetti: Foreign workers, Mexican - United States; Labor market - Emigration and immigration; Electronic books.; Guanajuato (Mexico) Emigration and immigration Social aspects; United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Who Are the "Unskilled," Really? -- 2. Learning Skills in Communities of Origin -- 3. Mobilizing Skills and Migrating -- 4. Transferring Skills, Reskilling, and Laboring in the United States -- 5. Returning Home and Reintegrating into the Local Labor Market -- 6. Conclusion -- Methodological Appendix -- NOTES -- References -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as "unskilled." Despite the value of migrants' work experiences and the substantial technical and interpersonal skills developed throughout their lives, the labor-market contributions of these migrants are often overlooked and their mobility pathways poorly understood. Skills of the "Unskilled" reports the findings of a five-year study that draws on research including interviews with 320 Mexican ; migrants and return migrants in North Carolina and Guanajuato, Mexico. The authors uncover these migrants' lifelong human capital and identify mobility pathways associated with the acquisition and transfer of skills across the migratory circuit, including reskilling, occupational mobility, job jumping, and entrepreneurship.

Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Betty H. C. Cheng, Rogério de Lemos, Paola Inverardi, Jeff Magee

• Record Nr.: UNISA996465599603316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2009
• ISBN: 3-642-02161-1
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2009.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (X, 261 p.)
• Collana: Programming and Software Engineering ; ; 5525
• Classificazione: DAT 310f; DAT 815f; SS 4800
• Disciplina: 629.836
• Soggetti: Software engineering; Programming languages (Electronic computers); Computer programming; Computer simulation; Artificial intelligence; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Software Engineering; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Programming Techniques; Simulation and Modeling; Artificial Intelligence
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1: Research Roadmap -- Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive ; Systems: A Research Roadmap -- Modeling Dimensions of Self-Adaptive Software Systems -- Engineering Self-Adaptive Systems through Feedback Loops -- 2: Architecture-Based Self-Adaptation -- Improving Architecture-Based Self-Adaptation through Resource Prediction -- Policy-Based Architectural Adaptation Management: Robotics Domain Case Studies -- A Case Study in Goal-Driven Architectural Adaptation -- 3: Context-Aware and Model-Driven Self-Adaptation -- Model-Centric, Context-Aware Software Adaptation -- Modeling of Context-Aware Self-Adaptive Applications in Ubiquitous and Service-Oriented Environments -- MUSIC: Middleware Support for Self-Adaptation in Ubiquitous and Service-Oriented Environments -- Using Architecture Models to Support the Generation and Operation of Component-Based Adaptive Systems -- Model-Driven Assessment of QoS-Aware Self-Adaptation -- 4: Self-Healing -- Automatic Generation of Runtime Failure Detectors from Property Templates -- Using Filtered Cartesian Flattening and Microrebooting to Build Enterprise Applications with Self-adaptive Healing.
• Sommario/riassunto: Although the self-adaptability of systems has been studied in a wide range of disciplines, from biology to robotics, only recently has the software engineering community recognised its key role in enabling the development of future software systems that are able to self-adapt to changes that may occur in the system, its requirements, or the environment in which it is deployed. The 12 carefully reviewed papers included in this state-of-the-art survey originate from the International Seminar on Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in January 2008. They examine the current state-of-the-art in the field, describing a wide range of approaches coming from different strands of software engineering, and present future challenges facing this ever-resurgent and challenging field of research. Also included in this book is an invited roadmap paper on the research challenges facing self-adaptive systems within the area of software engineering, based on discussions at the Dagstuhl Seminar and put together by several of its participants. The papers have been divided into topical sections on architecture-based self-adaptation, context-aware and model-driven self-adaptation, and self-healing. These are preceded by three research roadmap papers. .