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Emerald is pleased to announce the publication of Advances in Applied Business Strategy volume 12, 'Enhancing Competences for Competitive Advantage'. For full information please see below

Advances in Applied Business Strategy volume 12, 'Enhancing Competences for Competitive Advantage'

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 9781848558762

ISSN 0749-6826

Format Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 275 pages

Publication Date 7^th June 2010

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 competences, expanding services to enhance the value of manufacturing capabilities, initiating knowledge management projects, strategically adapting a firm's governance structures to take advantage of government policy initiatives, staging development of competences in internationalization processes, improving capabilities in managing alliances, understanding the factors conducive to entrepreneurial action-taking, and using individual competency development in self-managing processes for organizational competence building.

TOC

Introduction: Enhancing Competences for Competitive Advantage

Ron Sanchez

Lobbying: Strategies to make a firm's competences generate value

Martin Gersch, Christian Goeke, and Jörg Freiling

Competence-based strategies of service transition

Tim Kessler and Michael Stephan

Enhancing the inflow of knowledge: Elaborating the absorptive capacity-cycle in SMEs

Roberto Filippini, Wolfgang H. Güttel, and Anna Nosella

<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Toyota</st1:city></st1:place>'s competitive advantage: Path dependency, dynamic capabilities and sources of inimitability in competitive advantage: A contrastive study with Nissan

Evelyn Anderson

Toward the theory of temporary competitive advantage in internationalization

Petri Ahokangas, Anita Juho, and Lauri Haapanen

Relational quality, alliance capability and alliance performance: An integrated framework

Koen H. Heimeriks and Melanie Schreiner

How to build alliance capability: A life cycle approach

Kim Sluyts, Rudy Martens, and Paul Matthyssens

Modeling entrepreneurial action choice: From intent through rhetoric to action

Janice A. Black, Richard L. Oliver, and Lori D. Paris

Self-organization of competence development and the role of managers

Martin Kröll

The book is available as part of the Emerald's eBook collection in Business, Management and Economics.

It can also be purchased separately from the usual book retailers, as well as the Emerald Book store
http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?K=9781848558762&cur=GBP&sf1=kword_index&sort=sort_date%2Fd&st1=strategy&sf2=eh_cat_class&m=2&dc=102

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

Rebecca Forster
Assistant Commissioning Editor
Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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Fax: +44 (0) 1274 785204

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