Introduction : identifying, building, and linking competences -- Competences, distinctive competences, and core competences / Colin Eden, Fran Ackermann -- Managing the interaction of exploration and exploitation : ambidexterity as a high-order dynamic capability / Toni Sfirtsis, Rudy Moenaert -- The factors affecting the relationship between strategic options and the competence building process : an empirical examination / Sezi Cevik Onar, Seckin Polat -- The coevolution of alliances and industries : how industry transformation influences alliance formation and vice versa / Christian Goeke, Martin Gersch, Jorg Freiling -- The role of distributed competences for standard-setting communities : the case of industrial automation / Alexander Gerybadze, Andre Slowak -- Challenges for differentiators combining modularization and competence renewal / Heike Proff -- Recursive advancement of competence-based business management and its conceptual modeling / Pekka Huovinen -- An expanded view of "management processes" in the systems view of organizations / Adriana Priyono, Denis Tejada, Ron Sanchez -- The intellectual structure of the Competence-based management field : a bibliometric analysis / Frederic Prevot ... [et al.].

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.