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Empirical research with a purpose of identifying a firm's competencies is quite rare even if results allow for a highlighting of the roots of competitive advantage, discussion of identification methodologies of competencies and, sometimes, questioning of the possibility of such identification....
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–following Heath and Tversky (1991)–that people seek ambiguity when the source of uncertainty is related to their competence … sense of competence. This is an important force in economic activity that deserves more explicit attention. …
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, 2003) and competence (Heath \& Tversky, 1991). The control hypothesis states that a task's skill component (the sensitivity … of the task to skill) affects decision making; the competence hypothesis states decision making is affected only if the … support for the role of competence. In Experiment 3, the role of control was replicated, and participants' perceptions of the …
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-making competence, and demographic variables. …
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The performance of individual stockbrokers differs. This paper aims at explaining these differences, or at least at making some sense of them. In a study of fourteen stockbrokers, the high performing brokers described their working life in a systematically different way, compared to the low...
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professional education, some form of work experience, and a formal final examination to determine professional competence. The …
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competence hypothesis (Heath & Tversky, 1991), this pattern derives from favorable perceptions of one's competence. In most past … tests of the competence hypothesis, ambiguity is confounded with personal controllability and the source of the ambiguity (e … effects of both ambiguity aversion and competence. In Experiment 1, participants preferred an unambiguous chance-based option …
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organizations to the extent in which this competence does not belong exclusively to the Union and to the extent of these treaties …
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