Introduction / Rudy Martens, Aim(c)Øe Heene, Ron Sanchez -- The impact of corporate venturing on a firm's competence modes / J. Henri Burgers, Frans A.J. Van Den Bosch, Henk W. Volberda -- Increasing technological innovation competence through intra-organizational communication networks /...

Introduction / Aim(c)Øe Heene, Rudy Martens, Ron Sanchez -- Learning and capability development : the impact of social capital / Sigrid De Wever -- Reducing the vulnerability of capabilities through interfirm knowledge transfer / Bui Tue Quynh, Rudy Martens -- Moderate systemic inference in...

Competitive advantages of the firm based on geographical embeddedness : a case study / F.Xavier Molina-Morales -- Competence-based management and strategic alliances / J. Rajendran Pandian, Peter McKiernan -- Developing alliance capabilities in a new era / Geert Duysters, Koen Heimeriks --...

Identifying competences using a service-process model in quality management : empirical evidence from medical services / Markus Orava, Malin Br(c)·annback -- Mergers and acquisitions as gap-closing activities in competence building and leveraging / Ralf Metzenthin -- Operationalizing...

"Autopoiesis in Organization Theory and Practice" considers the potential of autopoiesis theory to provide a new unifying framework for the study of organizations as systems and of organizational phenomena as emergent phenomena. The papers in this volume integrate open systems theory with the...

The competence-based perspective on strategy and management emerged in the 1990s as a new approach to developing strategy and management theory and practice. In the past decade, the focus on organizational competences - and the resources, capabilities, and processes that create competences - has...

This volume of papers develops the competence perspective on learning and dynamic capabilities development. The first two papers explore how organizational competence and dynamic capabilities can support the competitive position of a firm. The next two papers are devoted to strategic,...