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Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
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Sales rank 2,160
Customers rating (based on 53 reviews)
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Now nearing its 60th 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.
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| Publisher | Free Press | | Release date | 06/1998 | | Availability | Usually ships in 24 hours | | Edition | Hardcover |
| | List price | $40 | | Our price | $26.4 (you save 34.00%) | | Used price | from $12.99 |
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 Great book!
Just an amazing book written by a legendary author on competition. I strongly recommend this book! A must read for MBA's especially.
 Good condition book.. very late delivery
I was happy with the condition of the book I received but the delivery was terribly late. I wanted to have the book urgently in a week and I got the book only after 18 days..
Great Dealer
The book was in excellent condition just as the seller said it would be. It was also shipped very quickly. I would definitely buy from this seller again.
 The Bible for Competitive Strategic Analysis
This is the classic text - in both a positive and negative sense. Porter's framework for competitive analysis, and his description of courses of action and the five forces of competitive landscape remain critically importat, topical and useful. In fact, many B-Schools have this as required reading, or the strategy book they use draws on this source text for competitive analysis.
On the other side of the coin, the version of the book I have is from about 1980, and the examples are a bit dated, and the world has changed quite a bit since then. It is easy to get wrapped up in the successes and failures of the compaies that Porter calls out as having superior competitive positions back in 1980 and looking at where they are (or aren't) today.
In summary - the framework for analysis is still revelvant and very useful, the examples are very dated, but if you are doing any level of competitive analysis, you will be almost expected to have read and used this book - the Bible of Competitive Strategic thought.
The Bible for Competitive Strategic Analysis
This is the classic text - in both a positive and negative sense. Porter's framework for competitive analysis, and his description of courses of action and the five forces of competitive landscape remain critically importat, topical and useful. In fact, many B-Schools have this as required reading, or the strategy book they use draws on this source text for competitive analysis.
On the other side of the coin, the version of the book I have is from about 1980, and the examples are a bit dated, and the world has changed quite a bit since then. It is easy to get wrapped up in the successes and failures of the compaies that Porter calls out as having superior competitive positions back in 1980 and looking at where they are (or aren't) today.
In summary - the framework for analysis is still revelvant and very useful, the examples are very dated, but if you are doing any level of competitive analysis, you will be almost expected to have read and used this book - the Bible of Competitive Strategic thought.
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