@article{oai:nfu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000759, author = {張, 淑梅 and Zhang, Shumei}, journal = {日本福祉大学経済論集}, month = {Aug}, note = {The resolution of problems brought about by today's ever-changing environment is becoming a pressing necessity for management practitioners. In this regard, the development of flexible and environmentally adaptable interorganizational relationship by strategic partnership is essential. The nature of partnership among firms is influenced by individual firm's uniqueness. The author argues that it is a firm's distinctive competence that generate its uniqueness. Competence-based management which has become a wave of business management of late stresses the importance of distinctive competence in maintaining competitive edge. Morever, distinctive competence sets an external criterion for managers to focus strategically on a wide range of industries, rather than one industry. Distinctive competence and partnership can be complementing and facilitating, because (a) distinctive competence is attractive to the partners and therefore can become the source of power in building partnership, and (b) partnership can be the means to improve distinctive competence. This paper points out that today's managers are facing two tasks. One is to discover and maintain in-house distinctive competence. The other is how to establish strategic partnership. Through investigating Japanese companies, the paper suggests the ways to build up and maintain individual skills, and how these skills be integrated so that they can become the firm's distinctive competence.}, pages = {101--115}, title = {企業の独自性とパートナーシップ}, volume = {15}, year = {1997}, yomi = {チョウ, シュクバイ} }