Insightful strategies for competitive business advantage.
If you're the strategic planner or a business-minded individual hungry for success, "On Competition" is a must-read. Porter's incisive analysis and concepts like the 'Five Forces' will give you the tools to understand the competitive landscape and position your venture or ideas for maximum impact. It's the kind of book that can change the way you think about markets and strategy.
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ISBN: 9780875847955
Authors:
Michael E. Porter
Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr
Date of Publication: 1998-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 4.27
(rated by 588 readers)
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For the past fifteen years, Michael Porter's work has defined our fundamental understanding of competition and competitive strategy. Presented here for the first time as a collective whole are a dozen articles -- two entirely new pieces together with ten of Porter's articles from the Harvard Business Review, as well as an introduction from Porter, his first statement on how the parts of his work fit together. To read through this collection is to experience Porter at work: we see firsthand as his important theories take shape, deepen, and evolve over time. Porter addresses the important issues of competition, from company strategy to the relationship between competition and environmental regulation to the counterintuitive role of geography in the global economy. At once eloquent and convincing, these essays help us to examine and understand the essence of competition. "On Competition" offers the intellectual foundations for company and country strategies for the years ahead.
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Insightful strategies for competitive business advantage.
If you're the strategic planner or a business-minded individual hungry for success, "On Competition" is a must-read. Porter's incisive analysis and concepts like the 'Five Forces' will give you the tools to understand the competitive landscape and position your venture or ideas for maximum impact. It's the kind of book that can change the way you think about markets and strategy.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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