/ Markus Orava, Malin Br(c)·annback -- Mergers and acquisitions as gap-closing activities in competence building and leveraging …(c)·el Houthoofd, Aim(c)Øe Heene -- Exploring the growth strategy of contract electronics manufacturers in Taiwan : a competence …-based perspective / Ji-Ren Lee, Jen-Shyang Chen, Ming-Je Tang -- Outline of a theory of competence development / Heike Proff -- (Un …

This volume of "Research in Competence-Based Management" focuses on a range of fundamental issues in developing … competence-base theory and in undertaking competence-based research intended to contribute to management theory development. The … first papers in this volume revisit and reappraise a number of foundational competence ideas, concepts, and research themes …