A Core Competence

Multiple Choice

A core competence

A) makes a contribution to a company's success in the marketplace.
B) is typically knowledge-based,residing in a company's intellectual capital and not in its tangible physical assets on the balance sheet.
C) is often grounded in cross-department combinations of knowledge and expertise.
D) is a competitively relevant activity that a firm performs especially well in comparison to the other activities it performs.
E) All of these.