Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael E. Porter

Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors

by Michael E. Porter

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Business & Finance

The 1980 book that defined modern strategic analysis, introducing the Five Forces framework for industry structure and the three generic strategies for competing within one.

Core ideas
  • Five Forces: rivalry, buyers, suppliers, substitutes, new entrants — together they determine industry profitability, not the firm.
  • The three generic strategies: cost leadership, differentiation, focus — being "stuck in the middle" is fatal.
  • Strategy is about deliberate trade-offs that make a position defensible, not about being best at everything.
Published1980
Pages397
ISBN9780684841489
ReadFeb 2020
business strategy

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