CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING COMPETENCE MANAGEMENT AND THE COMPETENCE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS OF THE SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES

As firms evolve in an ever-changing environment, new perspectives are needed to explain management practices and the competence management that involves several heavy processes. We have categorised them in four classes: competence identification, competence assessment, competence acquisition and competence usage. Partnership is a relationship that emphasises equality, shared responsibility, co-operation, individual competence and competence management information systems that are defined by the concept of internal networking (which characterises an organisational structure that is catalysed by, and embedded in partnership relations), form the central theme of this paper in examining the success of the Small and Medium Entreprises, deploying the partnership concept, the paper also questions the importance of contextual factors in corporate management.