OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY P.O. BOX 1000, FI-02015 TKK http://www.tkk.fi Author Ismo Laukkanen Name of the dissertation Knowledge transfer and competence development in complex paper production environments Manuscript submitted 9.11.2007 Manuscript revised 23.1.2008 Date of the defence 8.2.2008 Monograph Article dissertation (summary + original articles) Faculty ...

The paper aims to specify the content and structure of first-year students-linguists’ linguistic competence. article analyses component competence as thematic basic professional author tries differentiate notions “linguistic competence” “language competence”, reveal essence Scientific originality study involves clarifying with aim improve their training. research findings are follows: identifie...

This study examines the effect of strategic performance measurement systems (PMS) on managers’ role clarity, psychological empowerment, job satisfaction and managerial performance. Data were collected using a survey of 83 strategic business unit managers from Australian manufacturing organisations. Consistent with the need to define the underlying theoretical properties of management accounting...

Digitization causes fundamental shifts in economy and society. These changes will go in line with significant changes of corporate core competencies as well as the skills and capabilities of employees. Due to the increasing pace of technological development in production and service processes as well as the ongoing trend to automation classic educational approaches will no longer suffice to ens...

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Strategic planning in small organizations is significantly different from large organizations. The process is informal in nature, as in most of the cases, the entrepreneurs are the sole strategic decision-makers. They manage the day-to-day operations and perform multiple tasks, chalking out a growth plan. The core necessity of strategic leadership is to view the market and opportunities. By des...

This paper aims to unbundle the antecedents of competence-based synergy in strategic alliance formation process by employing ARCTIC framework. The current research provides a new empirical application framework reveal success factors reciprocal synergies Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi automotive industry. By taking resource-based view on sources competitive advantage, contributes theoretical and pra...

The alignment of business and information technology (IT) strategies is an important and enduring theoretical challenge for the information systems discipline, remaining a top issue in practice for the past twenty years. Multi-business organizations (MBOs), present a particular alignment challenge, where business strategies are developed at both the corporate level and within individual strateg...

This article examines the communicative competence, its essence and component composition, which includes a number of competencies such as linguistic, strategic, discursive, sociocultural, well distinguishing between concepts “competence” “competence”. there is goal in teaching foreign language, namely to teach reading literature most important aspects learning language were grammar rules abili...