How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy

1989/01/01 by Michael E. Porter · 7 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · #Business Strategy and Innovation

paper · doi:10.1007/978-1-349-20317-8_10

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Abstract

The essence of strategy formulation is coping with competition. Yet it is easy to view competition too narrowly and too pessimistically. While one sometimes hears executives complaining to the contrary, intense competition in an industry is neither coincidence nor bad luck.

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