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Competitive advantage

Now beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter's The Competitive Advantage of Nations has changed completely our conception of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. Porter's groundbreaking study of international competitiveness has shaped national policy in countries around the world. It has also transformed thinking and action in states, cities, companies, and even entire regions such as Central America. Based on research in ten leading trading nations, The Competitive Advantage of Nations offers the first theory of competitiveness based on the causes of the productivity with which companies compete. Porter shows how traditional comparative advantages such as natural resources and pools of labor have been superseded as sources of prosperity, and how broad macroeconomic accounts of competitiveness are insufficient. The book introduces Porter's "diamond," a whole new way to understand the competitive position of a nation (or other locations) in global competition that is now an integral part of international business thinking. Porter's concept of "clusters," or groups of interconnected firms, suppliers, related industries, and institutions that arise in particular locations, has become a new way for companies and governments to think about economies, assess the competitive advantage of locations, and set public policy. Even before publication of the book, Porter's theory had guided national reassessments in New Zealand and elsewhere. His ideas and personal involvement have shaped strategy in countries as diverse as the Netherlands, Portugal, Taiwan, Costa Rica, and India, and regions such as Massachusetts, California, and the Basque country. Hundreds of cluster initiatives have flourished throughout the world. In an era of intensifying global competition, this pathbreaking book on the new wealth of nations has become the standard by which all future work must be measured.

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  • "Handboek waarin uiteengezet wordt hoe een manager een concurrentievoordeel kan behalen en behouden."
  • "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 consistent configuration of activities. Its powerful framework provides the tools to understand the drivers of cost and a company's relative cost position. Porter's value chain enables managers to isolate the underlying sources of buyer value that will command a premium price, and the reasons why one product or service substitutes for another. He shows how competitive advantage lies not only in activities themselves but in the way activities relate to each other, to supplier activities, and to customer activities. That the phrases 'competitive advantage' and 'sustainable competitive advantage' have become commonplace is testimony to the power of Porter's ideas. Competitive advantage has guided countless companies, business school students, and scholars in understanding the roots of competition. Porter's work captures the extraordinary complexity of competition in a way that makes strategy both concrete and actionable."
  • "The author shows executives how to evaluate their company's own competitive position and take action to create a sustained competitive advantage."
  • "Now beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter's The Competitive Advantage of Nations has changed completely our conception of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. Porter's groundbreaking study of international competitiveness has shaped national policy in countries around the world. It has also transformed thinking and action in states, cities, companies, and even entire regions such as Central America. Based on research in ten leading trading nations, The Competitive Advantage of Nations offers the first theory of competitiveness based on the causes of the productivity with which companies compete. Porter shows how traditional comparative advantages such as natural resources and pools of labor have been superseded as sources of prosperity, and how broad macroeconomic accounts of competitiveness are insufficient. The book introduces Porter's "diamond," a whole new way to understand the competitive position of a nation (or other locations) in global competition that is now an integral part of international business thinking. Porter's concept of "clusters," or groups of interconnected firms, suppliers, related industries, and institutions that arise in particular locations, has become a new way for companies and governments to think about economies, assess the competitive advantage of locations, and set public policy. Even before publication of the book, Porter's theory had guided national reassessments in New Zealand and elsewhere. His ideas and personal involvement have shaped strategy in countries as diverse as the Netherlands, Portugal, Taiwan, Costa Rica, and India, and regions such as Massachusetts, California, and the Basque country. Hundreds of cluster initiatives have flourished throughout the world. In an era of intensifying global competition, this pathbreaking book on the new wealth of nations has become the standard by which all future work must be measured."@en

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  • "Competitive advantage"@en
  • "Ventaja competitiva creación y sostenimiento de un desempeño superior"@es
  • "Competitive advantage : creating and sustaining superior performance ; with a new introduction"
  • "Competitive advantage : creating and sustaining superior performance ; with a new introduction"@en
  • "Competitive advantage : creating and sustaining : superirior performance"
  • "Ventaja competitiva : creacion y sostenimiento de un desempeno superior"@es
  • "Ventaja competitiva : creación y sostenimiento de un desempeño superior"@es
  • "Ventaja competitiva : creación y sostenimiento de un desempeño superior"
  • "Competitive advantage : creating and sustaining superior performance"
  • "Competitive advantage : creating and sustaining superior performance"@en
  • "Ventaja competitiva : creacion y sostenimiento de uns desempeno superior"
  • "Competitive advantage : with a new introduction"@en
  • "Competitive advantage: creating and sustaining superior performance"
  • "Competitive advantage creating and sustaining superior performance : with a new introduction"
  • "Concurrentievoordeel : de beste bedrijfsresultaten behalen en behouden"
  • "La ventaja competitiva : creación y sostenimiento de un desempeño superior"
  • "Ventaja competitiva: creación y sostenimiento de un desempeño superior"@es
  • "Competitive advantage : creating and sustaining superior performance : with a new introduction"@en
  • "Competitive advantage : creating and sustaining superior performance : with a new introduction"
  • "Concurrentie-voordeel : de beste bedrijfsresultaten behalen en behouden"
  • "Competitive advantage creating and sustaining superior performance"@en

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