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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459271303321

Titolo

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

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

HeeneAimeĢ

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