Enhancing Competences for Competitive Advantage

Aimé Heene

ISBN 10: 1848558767 / ISBN 13: 9781848558762

Published by Emerald Publishing Limited, GB, 2010

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Enhancing Competences for Competitive Advantage
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, GB
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848558767
• ISBN 13: 9781848558762
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 590 grams

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Synopsis

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.