Management Competence: Resource-Based Management and Plant Performance

✍ Scribed by Dr. Andreas Enders (auth.)

• Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 213
• Series: Contributions to Management Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book contributes to the never-ending search for higher firm rents. Firms can be defined as a set or resources and skills. Traditional theory on strategic management hardly examines the unique and invaluable character of management competence as the key resource of the firm. Management competence is two-fold. It expresses the ability to manage and to reallocate resources according to changing market requirements. The resource structure of a firm does not stop at the company level, but has to include suppliers and customers as external resources. This book uses state-of-the-art methodologies to deliver empirical evidence for the value of management competence in leading to both operational excellence and financial success. Thereby, it is able to provide deeper insights into the quest on firm performance differences.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Literature Overview....Pages 7-57
Management Competence Model....Pages 59-75
Methodology....Pages 77-114
Empirical Results....Pages 115-170
Conclusion....Pages 171-176
Back Matter....Pages 177-204

✦ Subjects

Organization/Planning; Marketing