Bücher der Reihe Research in Competence-Based Management

Focusing on "The Marketing Process in Organizational Competence", this volume reflects the fundamental market orientation in competence theory's foundational concepts and theoretical development. It includes papers which explore key aspects of the common conceptual foundations of competence and marketing theories.

Focuses on a range of fundamental issues in developing competence-base theory and in undertaking competence-based research intended to contribute to management theory development. This work assesses the areas in which restatements or extensions of competence theory may be needed or would be useful.

Features a collection of papers that explores the challenges in identifying, building, and linking competences within and between organizations. This title includes a paper that describes a facilitated process through which managers may identify an organization's competences. It also explains basic issues in building organizational competence.

Focusing on "Understanding Growth: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Diversification", this volume addresses key processes essential to successful organization competence building, leveraging, and maintenance. It includes papers which explore the importance of entrepreneurial motivation in changing markets, and more.

Focusing on "Managing Knowledge Assets and Organizational Learning", this volume reflects the importance of knowledge and learning in organizational competence building, leveraging, and maintenance. It includes papers which explore the nature of learning dynamics in organizations, and more.

The papers in volume 6 of Research in Competence-Based Management identify, elaborate theoretically, and investigate empirically a number of new kinds of dynamics in industries and product markets.

Changing business environments challenge established management ideas and practices. This volume draws on competence-based theory to identify and elaborate some important ways in which organizational competences are evolving - or should evolve - to respond to some fundamental forms of change in business environments.

This volume presents an epistemological argument for the essential function of mid-range theory in advancing management concepts that can be usefully applied by managers. Authors analyse two examples - modularity and dynamic capabilities.