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.This paper explored the origin of Toyotaa#39;s competitive advantage, how it evolved and the nature of Toyotaa#39;s inimitability in terms of its relationship with its key technology supplier a Denso. A contrastive study on Nissan, Toyotaa#39;s significantanbsp;...
Title | : | Enhancing Competences for Competitive Advantage |
Author | : | Ron Sanchez, Aime Heene |
Publisher | : | Emerald Group Publishing - 2010 |
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