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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.
Price: $165.99
Pages: 275
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Series: Advances in Applied Business Strategy
Publication Date:
04 June 2010
ISBN: 9781848558762
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning, Business strategy, Operational research
List of Contributors.
Introduction.
Lobbying: strategies to make a firm's competences generate value.
Competence-based strategies of service transition.
Enhancing the inflow of knowledge: elaborating the absorptive capacity cycle in SMEs.
Toyota's competitive advantage: path dependency, dynamic capabilities, and sources of inimitability – a contrastive study with Nissan.
Toward the theory of temporary competitive advantage in internationalization.
Relational quality, alliance capability, and alliance performance: an integrated framework.
How to build alliance capability: A life cycle approach.
Modeling entrepreneurial action choice: from intent through rhetoric to action.
Self-organization of competency development and the role of managers.
Advances in applied business strategy.
Enhancing Competences for Competitive Advantage.
Copyright page.