Construindo o conceito de competência

The issue of competence building and management is currently gaining momentum at the academic and the managerial instances. The debates usually focus on one of three distinct levels of analysis: the level of the person (individual competences), the level of the enterprise (core competences of the organization) and the level of a region or nation (educational systems for the formation of local competences). The objective of this paper is to contribute to the theorethical discussion about competence building and management through the development of a conceptual framework, elaborated upon both the American and the European approaches. The key feature of that framework is the dynamic relationship between competitive strategy and competence management.