Price: $47.00 - $25.85
(as of Jan 04, 2025 00:01:24 UTC – Details)
Now nearing its sixtieth 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.
Publisher : Free Press; Illustrated edition (June 1, 1998)
Language : English
Hardcover : 397 pages
ISBN-10 : 0684841487
ISBN-13 : 978-0684841489
Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
Dimensions : 6.5 x 1.5 x 10 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book’s content informative and well-organized. They describe it as a great tool for learning about competitive strategy and defining how businesses compete. However, opinions differ on the reading pace – some find it clear and direct, while others consider the writing style boring and repetitive.
AI-generated from the text of customer reviews
Recent Comments