1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785060603321

Titolo

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

HeeneAimé

Disciplina

658.4012

Soggetti

Competition

Core competencies

Business planning

Strategic planning

Business strategy

Operational research

Business & Economics - Strategic Planning

Business & Economics - Organizational Behaviour

Business & Economics - Operations Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based on print version record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

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 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.