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Competitive Advantage

Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

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    592 pages

  • Release Date

    4 August 1998

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Summary

Competitive Advantage

Competitive Advantage introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does. Porter’s groundbreaking concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into ‘activities’, or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage.

Now an essential part of international business thinking, Competitive Advantage takes strategy from broad vision to an internally consi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780684841465
ISBN-10:0684841460
Author:Michael E. Porter, Micheal Porter
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Imprint:The Free Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:592
Edition:1st
Release Date:4 August 1998
Weight:778g
Dimensions:41mm x 156mm x 235mm
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Critics Review

The Washington PostA brilliant structural analysis of what competitive advantage mightmean….

Financial Times The most influential management book of the past quarter century….A veritable goldmine of analytical concepts and tools to help companies get a much clearer grasp of how they can create and sustain competitive advantage.
Philip Kotler S.C. Johnson & Son, Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Northwestern University Michael Porter has done it again. Having defined the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of competitive strategy in his earlier book, he now defines the ‘how’ in Competitive Advantage.
Newsday A sharp, aggressive and cogently reasoned book about competition that your smarter rivals will try to get to first.
The Washington Post A brilliant structural analysis of what competitive advantage might mean….
Antitrust Law & Economics Review A superb guide for business managers but also necessary background study for judges, antitrust agency officials, and economic experts in antitrust cases.

About The Author

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, all published by The Free Press. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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