理论基础是美国企业战略管理专家普拉哈拉德和哈默尔提出的核心竞争力理论。
The core competence theory is borrowed from American's corporate management strategists, C. K. Parahalad and Gary Hamel.
核心竞争力难以被竞争对手模仿，即它应该是十分独特的(普拉哈拉德和哈默，1990)。
A core competence is difficult for rivals to imitate, i.e. it must be competitively unique (Prahalad and Hamel, 1990).
普拉哈拉德和加里·哈默尔曾在哈佛商业评论上关于企业核心竞争力进行了经典分析后，人们普遍认识到企业自身核心竞争优势将随产品和市场的变化而消失。
C.K Prahalad and Gary Hamel's HBR classic core Competence of the Corporation made popular the notion that knowing and mastering core business factors can be leveraged across products and markets.
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