Research On The Competitiveness Of Mining Company: An Environmental And Mineral Resources-Based View

International competition has been becoming much more tempestuously because of today's rapid-paced economic globalization. Chinese mining enterprises have to find new way to respond to the challenges of hyper-competitive environment. The main purposes of this research are to look into Chinese mining companies, and promote a competitive capability evaluation system for them.A number of literatures about company competitiveness were reviewed. Combined the main theories of competitiveness and the basic characteristics of mining company, an elemental model was promoted for the competitiveness of mining enterprises constraned by environmental and mineral resources. Internal essential factors of mining enterprises, such as mineral resources, technical innovation capability, resources conservation capability, environment protection capability etc, were considered as the kernel of the competitive advantage.The main disadvantages were discussed occurred commonly in mining companies of China such as smaller enterprise scale, less technique innovation, resources wasting, environment pollution, disordered competition etc. Realized the constrans of mineral resources and environment status, the dissertation constructed a suitable and reasonable evaluation index system and method based on Delphi, AHP as well as MTV for the competitive capability of mining enterprises.Three important mining enterprises of lead-zinc oredeposits in China, FK, LP and CB, were selected as case companies for demonstration application of the evaluation system. The set of index and evaluation method were verifed feasible by the case study. Applying Multivariate Time Series Variance Component Model (MTV), some key factors concerns to resources reserve and technique innovation were distinguished as critical for a sustainable competitive advantage.To improve competitive capability of our mining enterprises, it is vital to build innovation-oriented, large scaled,resource-conserving and environment-friendly companies, as well as a justice competition society environment.