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Pursuit of Competitive Advantages for Entrepreneurship: Development of Enter-
prise as a Learning Organization. International and Russian Experience
Paper prepared for the 44th Congress of the ERSA, Porto, Portugal, 25-29 August 2004
Anna A. Dokukina, Ph.D (Economics)
Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics
with participation of Irina A. Petrovskaia, Ph.D (Economics)
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
Moscow, Russia
[email protected]
Abstract
The range of up-to-date means to achieve success in business is rather extensive.
The question is how to use them effectively taking into consideration conceptual
changes in modern business strategies.
Characteristics of development of the firm as a learning organization and crea-
tion of corporate universities has been discussed during last decades by corporate and
human resources managers, economic consultants and business education professionals.
Most researchers emphasize the role of a corporate training system as an important
competitive advantage in the dynamic conditions of modern business activity.
Interest of Russian businessmen and economists to the new ways of solving
managerial and production tasks has emerged quite recently. The pursuit of effective
decision in management and production corresponding to the actual business strategies
leads to the increase of significance of intellectual capital as a base of a system of com-
petitive advantages of Russian enterprises.
The current and planned research is devoted to the problem of pursuit and crea-
tion of unique resources such as systems of corporate training and knowledge manage-
ment which are main elements of strategic planning and management of a firm.
The framework of research includes the following main points: