| Since the1990s, with the rise of the IT revolution, knowledge has become an important engine for promoting social, economic and cultural development. Therefore, creation of knowledge as well as the ability and efficiency of its application has become an important factor in evaluating national and regional competitiveness, marking the era of knowledge-based economy. In a knowledge-based economy environment, knowledge has become the most important economic and strategic resource. As the carrier of intellectual capital, human capital also performs the function of allocating economic resources. Also it is in a most important position of a company’s core competitiveness. With the support of modern information technology, the organizational structure of modern enterprises is becoming more flat. Because of it, a company’s effectiveness of allocating economic resources improves, which directly dependents on manpower who has mastered the modern information technology. IT has changed management models and concepts and promoted innovation and efficiency. In this context, IT-derived human capital is the key to enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises.Taking competitive advantage endogenous theory and competitive advantages as the starting points of research, this paper points out human capital is the key to the construction and operation of a company’s resources, knowledge and capabilities. It is also an essential element that running through the creation of enterprise value chain. The unique features of human capital have endowed it with more power of building corporate core competitiveness. Conducting theoretical analysis of human capital as the key to building corporate core competitiveness, this paper provides theoretical support for companies’construction of human capital competitive advantages. In addition, the paper is also able to come up with relevant suggestions, thereby providing companies with references for human capital management practices. Therefore the paper has both theoretical and practical significances.The paper conducts a comprehensive and integrated analysis of the value of IT-derived human capital. It firstly explores the connotation and formation of the value of IT-derived human capital. Then, it identifies the source of corporate competitive advantages of agriculture-related enterprises. In addition to analyze the mechanism of how the value of IT-derived human capital operates in and exerts impacts on agriculture-related enterprises, it explores the integration of the value of IT-derived human capital and ways to achieve integration. Furthermore, it explores the mechanism and methods to realize the value of human capital of agriculture-related enterprises. Through analyzing of the above-mentioned topics, doing empirical research and designing questionnaire, the paper provides some guidelines for the developments of agriculture-related enterprises, the main contents are as follows:(1) Relationship between the value of human capital and core competitiveness of enterprises. This paper analyzes to what extent the integration and motivation of the value of human capital can influence the performance and competitiveness of agriculture-related enterprises. With constant technological advances, physical capital still plays a major role in the growth of industrial output in agricultural product processing with an index of0.780095; second one is labor capital with an index of0.414590; the last one is IT-derived human capital with an index of0.039772. The index of IT-derived human capital is less than1/15of the labor capital’s, which indicating the less prominent role played by IT capital in labor-intensive industries, whose growth is still largely dependent on the input of physical and labor capital.(2) IT-derived human capital plays an important role to form the core competitiveness in agriculture-related enterprises. By combining traditional human capital, social capital, organization capital, market conditions, capital conditions and environment conditions, the paper has constructed a comprehensive evaluation index system of core competitiveness in agriculture-related enterprises, which includes IT-derived human capital. Based on this, it has carried out empirical researches on it, finding out that comprehensive agricultural Group’s core competitiveness is high, such as in the cases of X X Modern Agriculture Group Co. Ltd. and X X Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Industrial Company. The fact that unitary agriculture-related enterprises shows a lower level of corporate core competitiveness compared to integrated ones is probably due to the reason that the corporate core competitiveness of integrated enterprises is more dependent on division of labor and corporation. In addition, IT-derived human capital also tends to perform better in integrated enterprises. It is obvious that IT-derived human capital is the ultimate source and basis of corporate core competitiveness of agriculture-related enterprises. Building corporate core competitiveness of agriculture-related enterprises, it is of major significance to optimize various activities in the value chain of agriculture-related enterprises in view of IT-derived human capital and to cultivate those factors which have major impacts on IT-derived human capital. (3) The optimization of IT-derived human capital in view of improving the corporate core competitiveness in agriculture-related enterprises. IT-derived human capital of agriculture-related enterprises is a prerequisite for the improvement of corporate competitiveness. Highly developed or developing IT-derived human capital can lays a solid basis for the improvements of corporate competitiveness of agriculture-related enterprises. The optimal allocation of IT-derived human capital can promote the development of productivity of agriculture-related enterprises, thereby playing a positive role in improving their corporate competitiveness. Above all, this paper has conducted analysis on the optimization of IT-derived human capital in agriculture-related enterprises from various perspectives and come up with practical methods for optimization. |
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