Front cover -- Enhancing Competences for Competitive Advantage -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Lobbying: strategies to make a firm's competences generate value -- Introduction -- Theory -- Method -- Results -- Summary and outlook -- References...

Includes papers that offer a review of inter-organizational relations in alternative approaches to the creation and management of competences. This volume offers an integrative approach to strategy and management theory, research, and practice.

Competitive advantages of the firm based on geographical embeddedness : a case study / F.Xavier Molina-Morales -- Competence-based management and strategic alliances / J. Rajendran Pandian, Peter McKiernan -- Developing alliance capabilities in a new era / Geert Duysters, Koen Heimeriks --...