A focused issue on building new competences in dynamic environments / / edited by Ron Sanchez, Aimé Heene

• Pubblicazione: Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (388 p.)
• Disciplina: 658
• Soggetto topico: Industrial management; Organizational effectiveness
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): SanchezRon; HeeneAimé
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; A Focused Issue on Building New Competences in Dynamic Environments; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Part I: New Business Models and Strategies; Cloud Computing and Transformation of International E-Business Models; Introduction; The International Cloud Context; Business Models and their Transformation; Methodology; Description and Analysis of the Cases; Alpha; Beta; Discussion and Conclusions; Acknowledgment; References; The Why and the How of Coopetition: Modeling the Incentives and Design of Coopetitive Value Networks; Introduction; Theoretical Background ; Coopetition as Simultaneity between Competitive and Collaborative ActivitiesValue Network Approach to Coopetition; Competence-Based Management Theory and Coopetitive Value Networks; Research Design; Why Do We Need Models?; The Modeling Process; Value Network Model; Customer Value Model; Modeling and Analysis of Coopetition between Apple and IBM in the Case of PowerPC; The "Why"; The "How"; The PowerPC in Retrospect; Discussion and Implications; Research Implications; Managerial Implications; Limitations and Further Research Directions; Notes; References ; Combination as the Key Competence for the Dynamic Assembly of Temporary Networks: The Role of the Pivot-AssemblerIntroduction; Framework; A New Function for the Pivot and a New Role of Assembler; The Concept of Dynamic Assembly; Research Design; Methodology; Research Method; Data Collection; Data Analysis; Research Quality; The Contexts; The Travel Industry; Humanitarian Relief; Results; Discussion and Further Research; References; Building an Integrative Model for Managing Exploratory Innovation; Introduction; The "Four Central Problems" in Managing Innovation ; The Human Problem of Managing AttentionThe Process Problem of "Managing Ideas into Good Currency"; The Structural Problem of "Managing Part-Whole Relationships"; The Strategic Problem of Institutional Leadership; Building Our Integrated Model; The DIA Model; Adding the Organization Architecture Perspective; Adding Further Strategic Assessments; Research Methodology; Managing Exploratory Innovation in Firm A; Managing Exploratory Innovation through the DIA Model; The Human Problem of Managing Attention; The Process Problem of Managing New Ideas into Good Currency ; The Structural Problem of Managing Part-Whole RelationshipsThe Strategic Problem of Institutional Leadership; Managing Exploratory Innovation through Our Integrated Model; Managing Exploratory Innovation in Firm B; Adding Knowledge Management Processes to Our Integrated Model; Applying Our Enhanced Integrated Model; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Part II: Building new competences for implementing new strategies; The Impact of the Customer Focus Competence Group on Project Performance; Introduction; The Hypotheses; The Multiple Regression Model and the Dataset ; Discussion of Results
• Sommario/riassunto: Changing business environments challenge established management ideas and practices. This volume draws on competence-based theory to identify and elaborate some important ways in which organizational competences are evolving -- or should evolve -- to respond to some fundamental forms of change in business environments.
• Titolo autorizzato: A focused issue on building new competences in dynamic environments
• ISBN: 1-78441-274-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463809703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Research in competence-based management ; ; Volume 7.