This paper focuses on information systems (IS) competences in small firms. The paper draws on prior IS research that has used resource-based theory. The literature was used to identify many types of IS resources and competences, predominantly based on research in large firms. The paper reports evidence gained from interviews within nine small manufacturing firms using the Peppard & Ward (2004) ...

Geographical information is of strategic importance, when comes to land use management decision-making and GIS are essential resources for the production of land use management instruments, commonly known as plans. To build them, local authorities require multi-disciplinary teams with different competences and responsibilities. Many of these teams are external to the municipality and in the pos...

An electronic marketplace (e-marketplace) is a promising architectural model to develop collaborative supply chain management and integration platforms (Premkumar, 2003). The e-marketplace philosophy is based on a collection of economically motivated companies that need to cooperate with each other by exchanging data, resources, and competences. To this aim, competitive technical and economical...

The theoretical models of teachers’ knowledge bases, as developed by Shulman (1987) and Turner-Bisset (1997, 1999), do not overtly support Elbaz’s (1983), Lampert’s (1984) and Nias’ (1989) earlier suppositions that a teacher’s knowledge of self influences their pedagogic work. A review of the empirical literature produced by Connell (1985), Sikes, Measor and Woods (1985), Weber and Mitchell (19...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the value attributed to given working competences, by Portuguese handball coaches according to their coaching background, certification level, coaching experience, and level of education. A sample of 207 handball coaches responded to a questionnaire which included demographic characteristics and a scale focused on perceptions of the level of importance a...

Self-organised collaborative wiki work is reality in today’s businesses and students have to be prepared for the resulting requirements. Therefore, the aim of our paper is to demonstrate and to evaluate a way to practice self-organised and loosely coordinated wiki work in higher education. We simulate a common enterprise 2.0 collaboration situation to convey competences in a graduate-level clas...

At the Institute of Air Transportation Systems of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), methods for collaborative design are systematically developed and assessed. These collaborative design approaches are used to gain knowledge on the overall air transportation system. A collaborative working environment–the Integrated Design Laboratory (IDL) is established. It forms an experimental technical pla...

This paper aims to identify technical competency levels relevant to Software Engineering in a spectrum of professional profiles which are found in Spain’s main Software Development companies. The research work presents a combination of three initiatives. The first step constitutes a review of the literature related to the characterization of the labor force in the Software Engineering domain. T...

This study mainly examined two hypotheses: the first, based on Benedict’s argument that Japanese culture is a “culture of shame,” is that Japanese interpersonal competences are facilitated by shame but not guilt, the second, narcissism inhibits use of the Japanese interpersonal competencies. The respondents were 408 Japanese university students. NPI-S, TOSCA-3, and JICS were applied for assessi...

All organizations target a leading position in the market they operate in. To attain this leading position, it is essential to correctly balance the associates’ rational and emotional competences. Hence the pertinence of instruments which allow the measurement of the associates’ level of emotional competences. This paper describes the process that this specific method adopted in the cross-cultu...