Enhancing competences for competitive advantage

• Other Authors: Sanchez, Ron, Heene, Aimé
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2010.
• Series: Advances in applied business strategy ; v. 12
• Subjects: Competition.; Core competencies.; Business planning.; Strategic planning.; Business strategy.; Operational research.; Business & Economics > Strategic Planning.; Business & Economics > Organizational Behaviour.; Business & Economics > Operations Research.

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 com...

Table of Contents:

• 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.