Query: dynamics of competence based competition

Candidate papers:

abstract: Part I: Elements of a Theory of Competence Based Competition. A systems view of competence based competition (R. Sanchez, A. Heene) Strategic goals (R. Sanchez, H. Thomas) Industry dynamics in competence based competition (P. Gorman, H. Thomas, R. Sanchez) Part II: The Market Test for Competence From skills to competences: the play out of resource bundles across firms (W. Bogner, H. Thomas) Competitive analysis and competence based strategies in the hotel industry (M. Rispoli) Part III: Identifying and Building Competences. Developing and applying a process approach to competence analysis (M.A. Lewis, M.J. Gregory) Competence development by small firms in a vertically constrained industry structure (O. Jensen) Characterizing organizational competences: an industrial networks approaches (G. Easton, L. Araujo) Spinning off capabilities: competence development in knowledge intensive services (T. Elfring, G. Baven) Part IV: Leveraging Existing Competences. Flexible configuration strategies within Philips semiconductors: a strategic process of entrepreneurial revitalization (H.W. Volberda) From national to global product development competence in the telecommunications industry: structure and process in leveraging core capabilities (B.C. Winterscheid, S. McNabb) "Quick Connect" technologies for product creation: implications for competence based competition (R. Sanchez) Part V: Competence Building as the Driver of Industry Dynamics. The role of imitable vs. inimitable competences in the evolution of the semiconductor industry (R.W. Wright) Competence based competition and the evolution of strategic configurations (S. Tallman, D.L. Atchison) The role of international R&D in the competence building strategies of Japanese pharmaceutical firms (T. Roehl)
author_names: Ron Sanchez

Aime Heene

Howard Thomas
title: Dynamics of competence based competition: Theory and practice in the new strategic management
year: 1997

author_names: Howard Thomas

Phil Gorman

Ron Sanchez
title: Industry Dynamics in Competence Based Competition
year: 1996

abstract: This article develops the reward punishment issue model of voting using a newly collated aggregate measure of issue competence in Britain between 1971 and 1997, revealing systematic differences between governing and opposition parties in the way citizens' evaluations of party competence are related to vote intention. Using monthly Gallup 'best party to handle the most important problem' and vote intention data, time series Grangercausation tests give support to a classic issue reward punishment model for incumbents. However, for opposition parties this reward punishment model does not hold: macro issue competence evaluations are Granger caused by changes in vote choice or governing party competence. An explanation is offered based upon the differentiating role of policy performance and informational asymmetries, and the implications are considered for comparative studies of voting, public opinion and for political party competition.
author_names: Jane Green

Will Jennings
title: The dynamics of issue competence and vote for parties in and out of power: An analysis of valence in Britain, 1979 1997
year: 2012

abstract: In times of increasing use of project based structures, the capability of managing and organising projects becomes critical for competition. Previous research has documented the problems and possibilities of cross project learning and various mechanisms that organisations can use to stimulate and facilitate learning. Moreover, research on project competence and project capabilities has positioned these capabilities within a knowledge based theory of the firm. This paper tries to integrate these streams of research and attempts to broaden our current conceptual frameworks of how firms develop project competence. Based on an exploratory multiple case study of six firms, it is suggested that a more fine grained analysis of competence dynamics is required. We identify three different learning processes that contribute to the competence dynamics operating in project based organisations. The first one labelled "shifting" revolves around the major shifts in the project operations of the firm. It is suggested that such major shifts play an important role in laying the foundation and rejuvenating the challenges of project organising. The second learning process identified, labelled "adapting" focuses on the continuous learning that takes place within project operations of the firm, between project generation, project organising, project leadership and project teamwork. The third and final learning process "leveraging" emphasises the role of knowledge transfer across projects; across similar projects, across different types of projects. It is suggested that empirical research into competence dynamics in project based organisations should consider all three types of learning processes and further develop our understanding how these processes are linked to each other.
author_names: Jonas Soderlund
title: COMPETENCE DYNAMICS AND LEARNING PROCESSES IN PROJECT BASED FIRMS: SHIFTING, ADAPTING AND LEVERAGING
year: 2008

abstract: COMPETENCE CONCEPTS FOR MANAGEMENT: The Emergence of the Competence Perspective in Management Research Competence Based Strategic Management Competence Theory Building MANAGING COMPETENCE DYNAMICS: Strategic Renewal within Complex Organizations Strategizing for Innovation Assessing the Organizational Capacity to Change Customers as the Originators for Change in Competence Building Strategic Defence and Competence Based Competition MANAGING COMPETENCE SYSTEMICS: Competence Levels within Firms Integrating Corporate Strategy and Competence Building Processes MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL COGNITION: The Blind Spots of Competence Identification On Building and Leveraging Competencies across Organizational Borders MANAGING COMPETENCE HOLISTICALLY: Dynamic Corporate Coherence Reflection as a Building Block for Renewed Strategic Thinking Bringing the Environment into the Resource Based View of Strategy.
author_names: Ron Sanchez

Aime Heene
title: Competence based Strategic Management
year: 1996

abstract: One of the most important challenges for economic policy in the 21st century is the ubiquitous process of globalisation. Traditional governance concepts based on sovereign nation states are increasingly called into question. This is the reason why alternative modes of governance such as network governance or the European Open Method of Coordination have become popular. However, the bulk of the relevant literature leaves the important issue of the dynamics of competence allocation unexplored. Most commonly it is left untouched and treated as a "blackbox" instead. We aim to show that the more general framework of multilevel systems of institutions can contribute to a deeper understanding of the dynamics that determine the allocation of competences in such systems and its evolution. We present an institutional economic analysis that views this allocation and its dynamics as the result of self interested, strategically behaving agents. Thus, we contribute towards a clarification of the "blackbox" of complex governance processes that will play a dominating role in 21st century's international economic policy. In this paper, we apply our approach to the specific field of EU competition policy. We examine in depth the fundamental changes currently going on in this field.
author_names: Oliver Budzinski

Arndt Christiansen
title: Looking Inside the Blackbox: Competence Allocation in EU Competition Policy from an Actor Centred Perspective
year: 2004

abstract: The social and didactic dynamics produced in implementations of the negotiation oriented and partly web based game aEURoeSurfing Global ChangeaEUR (SGC) was analyzed by independent experts after their observations in advanced interdisciplinary university courses. It could be empirically demonstrated that the intended didactics of SGC were successful; namely that they were grounded on aEURoeactive, self organized learningaEUR training of aEURoecompetence to actaEUR and on responsibility for both practicable and sustainable solutions for the future society. The outlay of SGC succeeds in equilibrating competition vs. consensus, self study vs. team work, sharpening the individual standpoint vs. readiness to compromise, differentiation into details vs. integration into a whole and hence mirrors professional realities. In this spirit, the architecture of SGC gives a framework for aEURoegame based learningaEUR along its five interactive game levels. The conclusion is made that the set of game rules acts as a boundary condition for expected processes of social self organization. The independent expert opinions express the importance of self responsibility, for example when defining team size (ideally 3 5) during the identification of students with a project relevant to real life, and with the trainer staying on the meta level without entering into student discussions. Hence, self organization in SGC allows for self responsibility.
author_names: Gilbert Ahamer
title: Conclusions from Social Dynamics in Collaborative Environmental Didactics
venue: Int. J. Technol. Educ. Mark.
year: 2015

abstract: The psychological contract as a manifestation of employment relationship needs to touch the motivational aspect of employees in line with the increasingly intense competition in recruiting and maintaining the talented worker, especially the millenial generation that currently occupies the largest portion of the workforce. Work characteristics and values of the millennial generation affect the dynamics of psychological contract management that has become more focused on flexibility and employability skill development. Millenial workers motivated to develop professional competence tend to like collaborative work environments. Based on the social constructivist paradigm, organizations can facilitate learning process of millennial workers through social interaction. The process of sharing knowledge becomes the focus of millenial workers in order to improve decision making ability, problem solving and communication building. The social constructivist approach becomes relevant in managing psychological contracts in the context of millennial workers, especially in encouraging their participation and contribution as a form of self esteem fulfillment and self actualization. This chapter presents practical implications of millenial worker collective activity in developing millennial worker knowledge, especially related to the organizational efforts in building learning culture. In addition, human resource practitioners are expected to be able to gain a valuable guidance in devising strategies to maintain millenial workers by focusing on building professional and social competence. There are also mentoring guidelines for career development based on millenial worker characteristics.
author_names: Ade Irma Anggraeni
title: Millennial and Psychological Contract: Social Constructivist Approach
year: 2018

abstract: Companies increasingly rely on external partners when starting their innovation initiatives. Emergent innovation ecosystems of heterogeneous actors proved to be successful in leveraging combined competence for the creation of the new ventures. However, constantly changing environment of simultaneous competition and cooperation coopetition, presents a challenge for the ecosystem management. Drawing on the network orchestration and coopetition research, I analyze management practices and coopetition dynamics in the digital creative industry in Northern Sweden. Based on the analysis, I offer two main contributions. First, I provide a detailed account of innovation ecosystem orchestration within the digital creative industry, including its chronological evolution and the challenges related to it. Second, the application of coopetition notion to the innovation ecosystem context brings forward tensions that should be further scrutinized in order to develop better management practices for such innovation networks.
author_names: Vasili Mankevich
title: Managing Innovation Networks Exploring Coopetition Dynamics in Innovation Ecosystems
year: 2014

abstract: In today's turbulent environment, customers are playing a more important role in competition, which can be reflected by customers as co producer, value co producer, or co developer of knowledge and competencies, etc. Accordingly, business priority should be given to what customers really value. Unlike previous studies, which emphasize market performance mainly from the internal or firm's perspective, this paper proposes that firms should prioritize customer focused performance, defined totally from an external perspective of targeted customers. The paper examines the important role of customer focused performance and its interactive relationships with other dimensions of the overall performance system, and goes further to analyze the components and dynamics of customer focused performance. Finally, attention is given to the dynamic competence building and leveraging process and its key elements, which determines the customer focused performance in perspective of resource based views. Important propositions are presented and future implications discussed.
author_names: Yonggui Wang

Hing Po Lo
title: Customer focused performance and the dynamic model for competence building and leveraging
year: 2003