“michael e porter”

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, differ... More

Porter builds on the ideas of his earlier works to explore what makes a nation's firms and industries competitive in global markets and what propels national economic development.Now beyond its 11th printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter's "The Competitive Advantage of Nations... More

Presented as a collective whole, here are a dozen articles that address the important issues of modern competition, from its relationship with environmental regulation to the counterintuitive role of geography in the global economy.For the past fifteen years, Michael Porter's work has defined our fu... More

Competitive Advantage introduces a whole newway of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking concept of thevalue chain disaggregates a company into 'activities', or the discrete functionsor processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitiveadvantage. Now an essential... More

"Competitive Advantage" extends Porter's proven analytical techniques to the discreet activities of the individual firm, showing how to evaluate and improve a company's competitive position.The essential complement to the pathbreaking book "Competitive Strategy," Michael E. Porter's "Competitive Adv... More

The annual Global Competitiveness Report is widely recognized as the world's leading cross-country comparison of data and information relating to economic competitiveness and growth. Over the years, the Report has become the most authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the comparative strength... More

The authors address the issue of competitiveness in the developing world. Using the Colombian cut-flower industry as a backdrop (and drawing from a variety of industries in Bolivia, Venezuela, and Peru), they identify seven core elements of the failed model of competitiveness in which much of the de... More