Includes papers that offer a review of inter-organizational relations in alternative approaches to the creation and management of competences. This volume offers an integrative approach to strategy and management theory, research, and practice.

Front cover -- Enhancing Competences for Competitive Advantage -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Lobbying: strategies to make a firm's competences generate value -- Introduction -- Theory -- Method -- Results -- Summary and outlook -- References...