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Emerald Group Publishing is pleased to announce the publication of Research in Competence-Based Management volume 5, Identifying, Building, and Linking Competences. For full information please see below:

Research in Competence-Based Management volume 5

Identifying, Building, and Linking Competences

Edited by: Ron Sanchez (<st1:city w:st="on">Copenhagen Business School</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Denmark</st1:country-region>) and Aime Heene (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">University of Ghent</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region></st1:place>)

ISBN: 9781849509909

ISSN: 1744-2117

Format: Hardback, 229 x 152mm , 272 pp

Publication Date: 28th May 2010

Synopsis

The papers in this volume explore key challenges in identifying, building, and linking competences within and between organizations. The first paper describes a facilitated process through managers may identify an organization's current competences and assess which of its capabilities may constitute the "core" of its distinctive competences. Subsequent papers elaborate basic issues in building organizational competence, including balancing the exploration of new competences and the exploitation of current competences, creating strategic options through competence building, linking the capabilities of alliance partners to target and build new competences,  using product architectures in building and maintaining competences, the recursive nature of competence building processes, and the nature and role of management processes in competence building. A final paper analyzes the intellectual structure of and influences within the competence-based management perspective.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Identifying, Building, and Linking Competences

Ron Sanchez

PART I

Competences, distinctive competences, and core competences

Colin Eden and Fran Ackermann

Managing the interaction of exploration and exploitation: Ambidexterity as a high order dynamic capability

Toni Sfirtsis and Rudy Moenaert

Factors affecting the relation between strategic options and the competence building process: An empirical examination

Sezi Çevik Onar and Seçkin Polat

The coevolution of alliances and industries: How industry transformation influences alliance formation and vice versa

Christian Goeke, Martin Gersch, and Jörg Freiling

The role of distributed competences for standard-setting communities: The case of industrial automation

Alexander Gerybadze and André Slowak

Challenges for differentiators combining modularization and competence renewal

Heike Proff

Recursive advancement of competence-based business management and its conceptual modeling

Pekka Huovinen

An expanded view of "Management Processes" in the systems view of organizations

Adriana Priyono, Denis Tejada, and Ron Sanchez

PART II

The intellectual structure of the competence-based management field: A bibliometric analysis

Frédéric Prévot, Benedicte Branchet, Jean-Pierre Boissin, Jean-Claude Castagnos, and Gilles Guieu

This book is available in both print and online formats; please visit the website http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/books/series.htm?id=1744-2117 for more information on purchase and access options.

Contact the Editorial Team

Series Editors

Ron Sanchez, Professor of Management, <st1:city w:st="on">Copenhagen Business School</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Denmark</st1:country-region> & Linden Visiting Professor in Industrial Analysis, <st1:city w:st="on">Lund University</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region>, sanchez@cbs.dk

Aime Heene, Professor of Management, <st1:city w:st="on">Ghent</st1:city> University, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region> & Academic Co-ordinator Strategic Management, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">University Antwerp Management School</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>, aime.heene@ugent.be

Commissioning Editor

Kim Foster, kfoster@emeraldinsight.com

Best regards,

Kim Foster

Commissioning Editor

Tel: +44 (0) 1274 785076

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Email: kfoster@emeraldinsight.com