This volume explores ways in which an organizations existing competences can be enhanced as sources of competitive advantage -- either enduring or intendedly transitional. Competence enhancing activities considered include political lobbying to extend the lifetime and value of a firms competences, expanding services to enhance the value of manufacturing capabilities, initiating knowledge management projects, strategically adapting a firms governance structures to take advantage of government policy initiatives, staging development of competences in internationalization processes, improving capabilities in managing