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Prahalad and Hamel: Corporations and the Core Competency Concept

Posted: 07/31/2020 - 03:12
A core competency is the combination of resources and skills that distinguish a firm in the marketplace.

In 1990, two business academics, C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel, teamed to write one of the Harvard Business Review's most influential articles on the nature of the modern firm and, by extension, outsourcing. They introduced the concept of core competence, which they called the “most powerful way to prevail” in global commerce.

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