The Competence Trap: Exploring Issues in Winning and Sustaining Core Competence

Authors

Aidan O'Driscoll, Technological University DublinFollow
David Carson, University of Ulster
Audrey Gilmore, University of Ulster

Document Type

Article

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Publication Details

Irish Journal of Management, 2001, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 73-90

Abstract

The organisational struggle to maintain and refine, yet also necessarily to renew and replace core capabilities, is a complex, and at times paradoxical, challenge. This paper reflects on this managerial task and on the difficulties and tensions inhering in its possible resolution. In sum, it asks how can the need to leverage competence for today be balanced with the requirement to build competence for tomorrow?

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/D7FR16

Recommended Citation

O'Driscoll, A., Carson, D., Gilmore, A.: The Competence Trap: Exploring Issues in Winning and Sustaining Core Competence. Irish Journal of Management, 2001, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 73-90.