Changing business environments challenge established management ideas and practices. This volume draws on competence-based theory to identify and elaborate some important ways in which organizational competences are evolving -- or should evolve -- to respond to some fundamental forms of change...

Features a collection of papers that explores the challenges in identifying, building, and linking competences within and between organizations. This title includes a paper that describes a facilitated process through which managers may identify an organization's competences. It also explains...

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...

FRONT COVER -- A FOCUSED ISSUE ON COMPETENCE PERSPECTIVES ON NEW INDUSTRY DYNAMICS -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION TO THE FOCUSED ISSUE ON NEW INDUSTRY DYNAMICS -- ARCHITECTING ORGANIZATIONS: A DYNAMIC STRATEGIC CONTINGENCY PERSPECTIVE -- INTRODUCTION --...

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.