Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors - Hardcover

Porter, Michael E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0029253608 ISBN 13: 9780029253601

Publisher: The Free Press, 1980

Synopsis

Michael Porter's "Competitive Strategy" addresses major questions of vital concern to managers, and presents a comprehensive set of analytical techniques for undestanding a business and the behaviour of its competitors. Step-by-step, Porter provides the techniques and tools managers need to successfully conduct an industry and competitor analysis. Beginning with a comprehensive set of tools and techniques for analyzing any industry and any array of competitors, the book moves on to examine competitive strategies for fragmented industries, emerging industries, maturing industries, declining industries and global industries. The final section of the book provides analytical techniques for making the important strategic decisions that confront firms - vertical integration, major capacity expansion, divestment and entry into new businesses. This book is designed to enable managers to anticipate and prepare for - rather than simply react to - sudden competitor moves, new entries into their business, and shifts in industry structure, as well as to take forceful positive action to improve a company's position through tested competitive strategies.

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Review:

Fred Gluck Director, Mc Kinsey & Company, Inc. "Competitive Strategy" provides managers with the raw material for thinking about how to change the rules of the marketplace in their favor....Mr. Porter has made a substantial contribution to the art of the strategist by spelling out the richness of the alternatives which every manager must consider."

About the Author:

Michael E. Porter is the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. The author of fourteen books and recipient of the Wells Prize in Economics, he lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Free Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0029253608
• ISBN 13: 9780029253601
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 398