Competence-Based Competition - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471943975 ISBN 13: 9780471943976

Publisher: Wiley, 1994

Synopsis

Published in association with the Strategic Management Society, The Wiley Strategic Management Series aims to illustrate the 'best in global strategic management' for academics, business practitioners and consultants. This book addresses the theme of core competence and the processes and issues involved in managing core competence. It is an interesting and effective integration of strategic perspectives that exemplify many of the most important issues facing strategic management, both now and in the future. The contributions present the premise that corporate strategy should place technology, skill and synergy ahead of cash flow and control. Contributors Maurizio Barbeschi Richard Klavens Ilse Bogaert Jeremy Klein William C. Bogner Rudy Martens Vittorio Chiesa Richard P. Rumelt Michael Crawford Bernard L. Simonin Francesco De Leo Howard Thomas Richard Hall Dennis Turner Gary Hamel Andre Van Cauwenbergh Aime Heene Paul Verdin Duane A. Helleloid Peter Williamson Peter Hiscocks Beverly C. Winterscheid

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From the Publisher

An eclectic ensemble of contributors explore currently relevant issues regarding management theory and business practice, connecting them with previous research streams. The 12 articles present the premise that corporate strategy should place technology, skill and synergy ahead of cash flow and control. Using a resource-based perspective, their concept of competence allows a proactive construction of competence, spanning multiple businesses and observes competition as being over the acquisition and development of competence.

From the Inside Flap

Competence-Based Competition Edited by Gary Hamel London Business School, UK and Aimé Heene De Vlerick School voor Management, Belgium This volume deals with the beginning of a new era in the theory of strategic management. New concepts and techniques are developed and the fundamentals of the content and the process of strategic management are questioned in depth. Using a resource-based perspective, the concept of core competence:

• Allows a proactive construction of competence
• Perceives competence as spanning multiple businesses
• Observes competition as being over the acquisition and development of competence

Contributions to the book consider the competition between strategic issues. Is strategic management about reacting, anticipating or orchestrating all resources towards the realization of the desirable future of the company? Within this field of paradigms the concept of ‘core competence’ is gaining more and more importance in the area of strategic management. This book aims to show that it is necessary to have a sound theory of strategic management which has pragmatic relevance, face validity for the business community and close links to the daily practice of strategic management. Competence-based Competition will be of enormous benefit to undergraduates and graduates on management courses.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0471943975
• ISBN 13: 9780471943976
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 358
• Editor: Hamel Gary, Heene Aimé