| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 281 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Research in competence-based management,
1744-2117 ;
v. 3
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Research in competence-based management ; v. 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Managing Knowledge Assets and Organizational Learning -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editors' Introduction -- Introduction to Understanding Growth: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Diversification -- Part I. Entrepreneurship -- Part II. Innovation -- Part III. Diversification and Alliances -- Part I: Entrepreneurship -- Entrepreneurial Drives and Dynamic Capabilities in Situations of Encompassing Change -- Introduction -- Contradicting Demands in Situations of Encompassing Change -- Dynamic Capability -- Distinctive Features and Development -- Entrepreneurs and Firms Dynamic Capability -- Entrepreneurial Actions and Drives in Four High-Tech Firms -- Entrepreneurial Actions to Remain in a Situation of Encompassing Change -- Permanova -- Entrepreneurial Actions for Sustained Intense Technological Exploration -- Susar -- Entrepreneurial Actions for Sustained Intense Market Exploration -- Polar -- Entrepreneurial Actions to Move from Encompassing to Incremental Change -- Vitec -- Entrepreneurial Drives and the Development of Dynamic Capabilities -- Entrepreneurial Drives towards Creation, Expansion, and Building -- Dynamic Capability -- The Managerial Ability to Balance Contradicting Demands -- Development of Dynamic Capabilities -- A Process over Time -- References -- Entrepreneurial Volition to Take Action and the United States Markets of the 1990s -- Entrepreneurial Volition to Take Action and the 1990s -- Entrepreneurial Action Taking -- The Case of the Start-UPS of the 1990s -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Corporate Venture Capital: Leveraging Competences, Hedging Uncertainty, or Creating an Ecosystem? -- Introduction -- Strategic Objectives of CVC Programs -- Resource-Based, Real Options and Network-Based Perspectives on CVC Programs -- Resource-Based View -- Real Options-Based View -- Networks-Based View -- Research Methods -- Observations -- Leveraging and Upgrading Competences -- Reserving the Right to Play in Alternative Markets/Technologies -- Building an Ecosystem -- Discussion and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Innovation -- Corporate Entrepreneurship From a Competence-Based Management Perspective -- Business Development, Innovation, and Corporate Entrepreneurship -- A Competence-Based Framework for Corporate Entrepreneurship -- Corporate Entrepreneurship and Corporate Venturing -- Failures in Corporate Venturing -- Organizational Structures and Incentive Mechanisms of Corporate Venturing -- Success Factors for Corporate Venturing -- Potential Frictions Between the Corporate Core and Corporate Ventures -- Options for Organizational Integration of Corporate Ventures -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Innovation Strategies in Small Firms: A Competence-Based Model for Empirical Research -- Background -- Theoretical Framework -- The Relevance of Emotional and Intuitive Energy in Small Firm Management -- Beyond the Limits of the Core Competence Perspective: Competence-Based Strategic Management -- Resources and Capabilities Categories within the ''Small Firm as Fuzzy Boundary System. |
| Summary |
The contributors in this volume address key processes essential to successful organization competence building, leveraging, and maintenance. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Technological innovations.
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Technological innovations. |
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Strategic planning.
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Strategic planning. |
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Entrepreneurship.
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Entrepreneurship. |
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Diversification in industry.
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Diversification in industry. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sanchez, Ron.
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Heene, Aimé.
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| Other Form: |
9780762312115 |
| ISBN |
9780080460666 |
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0080460666 |
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0762312114 |
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9780762312115 |
| Standard No. |
9780762312115 |
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