Industrial Competitiveness, Enterprise Capabilities And Competitive Advantage

The difference of understanding of enterprise's essence and behavior has been formed a theme for the present advantage theories. Enterprise's homogeneity and heterogeneity understanding produced the two different options about the competition advantage source: outside and inside. Though these theories have made some explanations to the competition advantage, there are some limits. The prerequisite of the existed theories divide enterprise essence and behavior into homogeneity and heterogeneous, which causes the present theories can not develop deeply and still have a very great dispute to the source question. Changing the understanding of enterprise essence and behavior is a method to advance the development of competition advantage theories. Under this guard, this text chooses concrete enterprises with realistic characteristics as the research objects to try to make further the analysis about the outside market and inside capability of competition advantage. Incumbents and entrant in the competition of industrial leadership is a good object to analyze. By analyzing the evolution of enterprise capability in a industrial leadership competition, this text try to advances the development of enterprise capability theory and makes some valuable discussions to competition advantage. At first, analyze the whole course of the competition for the industries leadership; Then, explain how the enterprise's ability to evolve in the competition course. The method to analyze enterprise's ability only from inside is rejected. The interactive mechanism between enterprise's ability and industry competition is paid close attention to here, so the explanation to the core capability's formation , rigidities and constant should take into consideration the compact of the industry competition on enterprise's capabilities. Here think industry competition, as coordination mechanism to divide and specialize the enterprise work, promotes the effective development and accumulation of enterprise private knowledge, which promote the formation of enterprise's core capability. Meanwhile, industry competition and enterprise's core capability co-evolve. On one hand, Industry competition will impel enterprise's core capability to be rigid; And on the other hand can offer the direction and power for forming dynamic capability. At the same time, in view of the outstanding function of technology in the course of competition, the relation of competition advantage and technology is also discussed here. . Technology innovation is not the origin of incumbents' declination . Which side gets the industrial leadership on earth should depend on the coordination relation between enterprisecapabilities and industry development? Whether the enterprise capabilities can adapt technology changes is the basic reason to explain the enterprises grow and declinationo Such analysis integrate the theories of outside source and inside source ^ static and dynamic, advance the explanation of competition advantage theory to realistic enterprises o And the trend of this kind of integration is a direction reflected in the development of the competition advantage theory at present.