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Author: Michael E. Porter Edition: Publisher: Free Press Binding: Paperback ISBN: 0743260880 Price: You Save: 43%
Competitive Strategy
Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E.Competitive Strategy review. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity -- like all great breakthroughs -- Porter's analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies -- lowest cost, differentiation, and focus -- which bring structure to the task of strategic positioning. He shows how competitive advantage can be defined in terms of relative cost and relative prices, thus linking it directly to profitability, and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and dividedRead full reviews of Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors.
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About the Author Andrea Monika Herrmann received her PhD in Political Economy from the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (Florence) in November 2006. She also holds an MSc in European Studies: EU policy making from the London School of Economics (2002), as well a German and a French BSc in European Business and Management Studies from the European School of Business (Reutlingen) and the +ïT¬T-cole Sup+ïT¬T-rieure de Commerce (Reims). During her MSc and PhD studies, she was awarded various scholarships and research grants sponsored by the Deuts
Condensed by best selling author Michael Porter for Harvard Business Review. Operational effectiveness versus strategy Strategy based on unique activities Establishing a clear strategy Doable strategies key to results Strategic positioning Entrepreneurial edge Generic and specific strategies Sustainable strategies Necessary tradeoffs Strategy failures and how to avoid them Growth trap The all time best selling book on business strategy. Find the Competitive Strategy Audiobook - Download at Staples and Quill in the Teaching / Drafting / Art > Teaching & Learning Resources > Audio Books > Audiob
Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's 'Competitive Strategy' has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity -- like all great breakthroughs -- Porter's analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies -- lowest cost, differentiation, and focus -- which bring structure to the task of strategic positioning
Modern Competitive Strategy, 2e, by Gordon Walker, provides concise, rigorous, and broad synthesis of the theory and empirics of the strategy field. The approach is eclectic, reflecting the diversity of the discipline, drawing on studies in industrial and institutional economics, economic and organizational sociology, mainstream strategy, and finance and marketing when appropriate. Both single business and corporate-level organizations are covered. Ideal for current and budding managers, many short cases, company examples, and practical tools are used to illustrate the concepts. The material i
Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity -- like all great breakthroughs -- Porter's analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies -- lowest cost, differentiation, and focus -- which bring structure to the task of strategic positioning. He shows how competitive advantage can be defined in terms of relative cost and relative prices, thus linking it directly to profitability, and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and divided. In the almost two decades since publication, Porter's framework for predicting competitor behavior has transformed the way in which companies look at their rivals and has given rise to the new discipline of competitor assessment.
More than a million managers in both large and small companies, investment analysts, consultants, students, and scholars throughout the world have internalized Porter's ideas and applied them to assess industries, understand competitors,, and choose competitive positions. The ideas in the book address the underlying fundamentals of competition in a way that is independent of the specifics of the ways companies go about competing.
Competitive Strategy has filled a void in management thinking. It provides an enduring foundation and grounding point on which all subsequent work can be built. By bringing a disciplined structure to the question of how firms achieve superior profitability, Porter's rich frameworks and deep insights comprise a sophisticated view of competition unsurpassed in the last quarter-century.
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