The concept of competency-based management has gone from a new technique to a common practice in the 35 years since David McClelland (1973) first proposed them as a critical factor of employees' performance. Today, almost every organization small or large uses some form of competency-based human...

The study examines strategic decision making among entrepreneurs from small firms engaged in early stage commercialisation. It is based on a questionnaire survey of 57 firms and the results suggest that if entrepreneurs within small innovator firms feel the innovation can be commercialised with...