Core Competencies - Concept - The Present Status

2015
Bain & Co. Note
http://www.bain.com/publications/articles/management-tools-core-competencies.aspx

Idea of Core competence
Sep 15th 2008
http://www.economist.com/node/12231124


Strategic Management and Core Competencies: Theory and Application


Anders Drejer
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002 - Business & Economics - 224 pages

Managers and management scholars alike need operational models and concepts for dealing with core competencies within strategic management. This book provides tools for the practitioner as well as fundamental theoretical concepts to enable scholars to further build upon Drejer's work. His main argument is that understanding core competencies is key to explaining why some firms enjoy a competitive advantage over others. Drejer proposes models and means with which managers can proactively identify, design, and develop their firm's core competencies in strategic alignment.

More than merely a how-to book, this work places an equal emphasis on the concepts behind competence-based strategy. The author offers the reader multiple perspectives on the background of competence-based strategy, the relationship between strategic management and the development of core competencies, and the application of competence-based strategy to praxis. He provides the tools necessary to identify, analyze, and develop the competencies of a firm, and in so doing performs a valuable service for practitioners and researchers.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=0pe7G3ztbK0C

In the above book, from page 102, definition of and explanation of competencies are given.

Updated on 26 Feb 2021

Pub on 20.102016