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Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9780684841489
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0684841487
Label: Free Press
Manufacturer: Free Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 397
Publication Date: June 01, 1998
Publisher: Free Press
Studio: Free Press
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Editorial Review:
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. 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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Competitive strategy
This is a great tool for people in the industry, graduate students, anyone wanting to climb the corporate ladder. Read it times over and you'll find interesting points, applicable to personal career as well as corporate strategy. Straight forwward analytical set of tools.
Rating: - A Timeless Business Strategy Classic
As one of my University of Minnesota-Carlson School of Management professors once stated, "Every marketer must read at least one of Michael Porter's books." Once school was out that summer, I took my professor's advice, I read "Competitive Strategy" and continuously find myself referring back to it over and over again. It is a truly timeless wonder on competitive strategy. I recommend it as a must read by every b-school student, business owner, c-level executive, and marketing professional.
Rating:  - Still i didnt receive the book
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Rating:  - A Classic
This book is perhaps the best overview of competitive strategy analysis ever written. The book together with Porter's "Competitive Advantage" and "Competitive Advantage of Nations" has remained as the model or classic work on business strategy. Although the business world has evolved significantly since 1980 when the book was published, the framework and analysis of the book is still applicable and relevant today. Therefore, this book is a "must-have" for anyone involved in Strategic Planning ... Read More
Rating: - Comprehensive checklist
This book is a checklist, a great checklist for anyone doing analysis on industries or companies. Porter is a hard to miss if you work in this area, so you might as well get through this book, and you'll know what everyone is talking about, and you'll also get a good framework that ensures that your analysis doesn't skip important points.
Reading Art of War and those kinds of books gives you another kind of strategy, which is very useful in combination with the things Porter gives you. Basically, ... Read More
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