Summary
Now beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter’s The Competitive Advantage of Nations has completely changed our conception of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. Porter’s groundbreaking study of international competitiveness has shaped national policy in countries around the world. It has also transformed thinking and action in states, cities, companies, and even entire regions such as Central America.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780684841472 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0684841479 |
| Author: | Michael E. Porter |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | The Free Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 896 |
| Release Date: | 24 June 1998 |
| Weight: | 1.09kg |
| Dimensions: | 43mm x 156mm x 235mm |
Critics Review
Business Week Rich in lessons about why and how industries, regions, and nations succeed or fail.
The Economist An all-embracing view of economic change that amounts in the end to a powerful analytic framework. Porter has done for international capitalism what Marx did for the class struggle….A real achievement.
Administrative Science Quarterly Should have a profound and far-reaching impact on academic course work, managers’ perceptions, and public policy.
Business in a Contemporary World The Competitive Advantage of Nations is destined to become a classic in its field.
Journal of Development Economics The first serious attempt to develop a really original grand theory of national economic development processes since the early years of Postwar development economics, and one of the most original ways of thinking about development policy in years.
Publishers Weekly This massive, impressive, salient tome is structured so that business executives, economists, policy-makers and ordinary readers can turn to the sections most relevant to their needs.
Michael E. Porter
Michael E. Porter, one of the world’s leading authorities on competitive strategy and international competitiveness, is the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. In 1983, Professor Porter was appointed to President Reagan’s Commission on Industrial Competitiveness, the initiative that triggered the competitiveness debate in America. He serves as an advisor to heads of state, governors, mayors, and CEOs throughout the world. The recipient of the Wells Prize in Economics, the Adam Smith Award, three McKinsey Awards, and honorary doctorates from the Stockholm School of Economics and six other universities, Porter is the author of fourteen books, among them Competitive Strategy, The Competitive Advantage of Nations, and Cases in Competitive Strategy. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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