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 --...

This volume explores ways in which an organization's existing competences can be enhanced as sources of competitive advantage - either enduring or intendedly transitional. Competence enhancing activities considered include political lobbying to extend the lifetime and value of a firm's...

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...

Many industries are now evolving new kinds of competitive environments which are not adequately explained by traditional strategy theory. This article introduces a movement to make strategy theory more relevant to contemporary forms of competition by rethinking both the content and process of...