Conformity Study Of Enterprise Episteme Capital And Core Competition

Over the past ten years, scholars and entrepreneurs have always been trying to make corporations acquire sustaining competitive advantage through competence based approach. Though most people tend to attain an agreement on the function of core competence, there still many arguments on the definition and connotation of core competence. For the present, there are various definitions on core competence given by researchers of our country or foreign countries.Different definition on core competence lead to a divergence in understanding the connotation of core competence. The author believe that what core competence behave and what it is depended on are the premise in order to analyze the essence of core competence. The former concern in what form a corporation reflect it's core competence; the latter concern what carrier contains core competence.. The form of expression of core competence include formatting knowledge, ability, specialty, information and corporation attitude of value. These core competence in various forms exists in different carriers including man, organization, environment , assets and equipments. Therefore, the essence of corporation core competence is it's special knowledge and resource.Knowledge capital is the summation of total intangible assets in a corporation, it is an essential factor to maintain a corporation's regular operation. Knowledge capital can be measured by the odds between the market value of the corporation's assets and account value of them . Corporation core competence must based on it's hidden knowledge. Because hidden knowledge needn't to be avowed,; it's contents are blurring and can not be passed on; it is difficult to perceive it's existence ; it is complicated and systematic. Core competence is provided with common blurring characteristics. Core competence is also taken for knowledge form coordinating various resources of the corporation. From systematic perspectives, as two sub-systems in a corporation, knowledge capital system has complicated and close relations to core competence system, so it is important to probe the relations between the two sub-systems.Researching on the relations between core competence and knowledge capital, the author want to find a way to help corporations developing their core competence through integrating core competence and knowledge capital.