A Focused Issue on Identifying, Building and Linking Competences

by Ron Sanchez, Aimé Heene

Overview

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 which 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849509909
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	05/26/2010
Series:	Research in Competence-Based Management , #5
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.98(d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Introduction: Identifying, Building, and Linking Competences ix

Part I Identifying, Building, and Linking Competences

Competences, Distinctive Competences, and Core Competences Colin Eden Fran Ackermann 3

Managing the Interaction of Exploration and Exploitation: Ambidexterity as a High-Order Dynamic Capability Toni Sfirtsis Rudy Moenaert 35

The Factors Affecting the Relationship Between Strategic Options and the Competence Building Process: An Empirical Examination Sezi Çevik Onar Seçkin Polat 59

The Coevolution of Alliances and Industries: How Industry Transformation Influences Alliance Formation and Vice Versa Christian Goeke Martin Gersch Jörg Freiling 79

The Role of Distributed Competences for Standard-Setting Communities: The Case of Industrial Automation Alexander Gerybadze André Slowak 111

Challenges For Differentiators Combining Modularization and Competence Renewal Heike Proff 143

Recursive Advancement of Competence-Based Business Management and Its Conceptual Modeling Pekka Huovinen 175

An Expanded View of "Management Processes" in the Systems View of Organizations Adriana Priyono Denis Tejada Ron Sanchez 203

Part II The Intellectual Structure of the Competence-Based Perspective

The Intellectual Structure of the Competence-Based Management Field: A Bibliometric Analysis Frédéric Prévot Bénédicte Branchet Jean-Pierre Boissin Jean-Claude Castagnos Gilles Guieu 231