Organisational Competencies of Innovative Enterprises in Different Countries

Urszula Skurzynska-Sikora
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Urszula Skurzynska-Sikora: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland

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Abstract: The advancement of globalization processes, the growing dynamics and discontinuity of the changes occurring in the environment make contemporary companies face a necessity to accept continuous adaptation to new challenges. A significant role in acquiring and maintaining a permanent competitive advantage by the companies is played by their internal resources based on knowledge, known as organizational competencies. The idea of ‘organizational competencies’ has been defined in many different ways, however, it can be stated generally that they are the enterprise’s specific skills referring to the placement of its resources, together with its cognitive abilities which make it possible to undertake activities leading to reaching assumed goals. Organizational competencies of an enterprise include elements such as its unique, specific knowledge, experience and skills which have all been developed by this organization and which give it a competitive advantage. The paper presents the results of empirical studies performed in order to identify organizational competencies and comparison of competence profiles of innovative enterprises in different countries. The study covered 280 innovative enterprises employing at least 10 people, located in five countries: Poland, USA, Thailand, Austria and Ukraine, with the use of a specially developed questionnaire. Finally, the work presents some recommendations for managers, concerning the directions of changes that should be made in the approaches to development of organizational competencies.

Keywords: organizational competences; core competences; innovative enterprise; competitive advantage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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