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Effective competence-based management (CBM) requires in the first instance an ability to identify an organization’s competences and the sources of those competences. Identifying competences can be especially challenging in the context of not-for-profit organizations, which have often been characterized as being “different” from for-profit organizations. In this paper we argue that not-for-profit organizations have fundamentally the same systemic requirements for survival and success as for-profit organizations – and therefore that not-for-profits ought to be amenable to competence identification and analysis through use of CBM concepts and theory in essentially the same way as for-profit organizations. We support this basic proposition through a case study of competence identification and analysis in a humanitarian relief organization (HRO), an increasingly important kind of not-for-profit organization.

Addresses several considerations involved when implementing empowerment in high‐performance organizations, namely: defining empowerment within the organization; setting out key boundaries; and defining roles and responsibilities. Examines each in turn, discussing ways to overcome common problems. Stresses the importance of these considerations when attempting to empower employees.

Most of the resource-based literature has concentrated on the sustainability of advantages rather than on the appropriability of rents that can be derived from these. In this paper, we focus on both of these issues by developing a classification of resources based on type of ownership and control. We use the U.S. motion picture industry to assess the degree of sustainable advantages and appropriable rents that can be generated by contracted, owned and embedded resources. We suggest that both sustainability and appropriability is likely to be lowest for contracted resources such as top-rated stars and directors. On the other hand, these are likely to be highest for embedded resources which typically reflect firm-specific knowledge and learning in the development and marketing of various types of film genres.

Explores the relevance of structuralism and post‐structuralism to the field of library and information science (LIS).

The paper is a literature‐based conceptual analysis of the two philosophical movements, structuralism and post‐structuralism, as represented by the seminal figures of Ferdinand de Saussure and Michel Foucault.

The principles of structuralism and post‐structuralism have significant implications for how the role of the modern library can and should be viewed.

Provides insights into LIS by drawing on philosophical perspectives that are beyond the LIS literature.

Darchem Specialised Mouldings, which produces aerospace and automotive components and equipment in advanced composite materials, has announced the appointment of Graham Crow as sales manager.

United Technologies' Pratt & Whitney has received an order for jet aircraft engines valued at $75 million from Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) of Stockholm.