The purpose of this study was to identify potential opportunities for improving member participation in community-based coalitions. We hypothesized that opportunities for influence and process competence would each foster higher levels of individual member participation. We tested these hypotheses in a sample of 818 members within 79 youth-oriented coalitions. Opportunities for influence were m...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine factors such as academic competence, test competence, time management, strategic studying, and test anxiety, and identify whether these factors could distinguish differences among students, based on academic performance and enrollment in the experiential program. METHODS A cross-sectional study design utilizing questionnaires measuring prev...

Abstract The article substantiates the need to form strategic competence of future teachers in postgraduate education. authors formulated concept “strategic leadership a teacher” and presented components indicators competence. effectiveness curriculum “Pedagogical management modern school” developed implemented educational process forming teacher is proved. Confirmation maintained by results st...

The real estate development trade is a pillar industry of our national economy. The real estate companies must focus on core competence in order to succeed in the fierce competition. This paper presents a probabilistic model for core competence estimation of real estate firms. According to the nonlinear feature of real estate core competence, this paper establishes the fuzzy and neural network ...

Lifelong competence development is a fundamental premise for an information society, as well as major aim and challenge. Facing the variety of learning programs and qualification measures, problems emerge in supporting lifelong learning. Efficient competence development necessitates providing learners with learning opportunities which are appropriate for their current knowledge and for their in...

According to the competence-based theory, firm competencies are derived from capabilities that are unique in marketplace and are closely knitted within various business functions across the company. This paper provides a structured framework for evaluating the competencies of a firm using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). One distinctive feature of this framework is that a multi-criterion...

Based on competence-based view and network economics, this study intends to explore the determinants and the impact of customer base of Internetbased firms. This study suggests that the types of firm capabilities (technological versus marketing) are determined the customer base, and the customer base and firm capabilities impact on firm performance as well. Drawing on website traffic data and s...

In this paper we present results of an empirical study based on the opinions of 220 senior IT managers in the USA on critical success factors in the strategic use of IT. Our results show that competitive business strategies together with the competence of senior IT executives play the most important role in creating the strategic value of IT in organizations. The other critical factors were hum...

Most of the world population works in the service sector, which stresses the importance of knowledgeintensive organizations and, consequently, strategic competence management. Knowledge management and the supporting enterprise systems (ESs) have received a lot of researcher attention, but the deployment success rate is not flattering. Therefore, in this 33-month long Action Design Research (ADR...