Study Of State-owned Enterprises' International Competitiveness

This thesis, based on the demonstration of the importance for the state-owned enterprises to enhance their international competence, intends to present the main effective plan and strategic countermeasures for such enterprises to strengthen their international competence in the world market. The thesis consists of the following three major parts:Part I: The Interpretation of Concept, Feature Of Enterprise International Competence and Analytical Frame Of the International Competence For the State-owned Enterprises,First, International Competence theory is enjoying constant development, which, for its earliest time, was cited to address the international trade problems. The very concern for the scholars at that time was how to strengthen the comparative advantage of a country to maximize its profits in the international exchanges. Classic Economics believed that the comparative advantage was from the labor cost difference. However, the Natural Resources Endowment theory interpreted that the difference of international competence was from the difference of the natural resource endowment that took land, capital and labor as its core elements. Other economics focused respectively on the effect of technology, labor capital or system. These theories helped greatly the deepening of the understanding of the source of international competence.Porter broke through the limit of the traditional comparative advantage theory, he believed that a country or an enterprise could create its competitive advantage through its positive adjustment or adaptation to the external environment. Porter's theory was a significant development in the international competence theory. The Core Competence Theory probed the inside of an enterprise to find out the source of the international competence, which symbolized the new stage in economy.Marxist was different. It included the labor value in its study of the international competition and presented the international value theory which pointed out scientifically that the different level in the international competition was the result of difference between a country's social necessary labor time and the average unit (also called international social necessary labor time) of the other, believing that a country with higher productivity could make more value than the world average. At the same time, it also pointed out that the essence of international competence was the exploitation of the people of the developing countries by those countries' bourgeoisie in their unfairinternational transactions. The part of the value created by these developing countries was transferred to those with higher international competence. Ultimately it claimed that the true reason for the difference in country's international competence was whether or not the production relations (esp. ownership relationship) of a certain country could manage positive reaction to the development of productivity. This would provide a scientific theoretical foundation to the right understanding of the international competence.Second, In this thesis, the international competence of an enterprise is defined as higher productivity with less input, more effective acquisition and rational allocation of the resources than its counterparts in the world market under the background of economic globalization. It is ability that an enterprise comes to have through its participation in the fierce market competition, and it appears to be an ability for an enterprise's survival and sustainable development. The international competence is special, and it can help an enterprise to gain competitive advantage. It has a value creation, internal domination, external dependence , distinctiveness, dynamic development and sustainability.Third, It is believed, in this paper, that the factors that affect the international competence is diverse, which include a country's political or economic system for ultimate, or even the basic qualifications of an enterprise's employees. However, those factors affect its international competence not at the s...