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  • July 2005
  • Class Lecture

Sustaining Competitive Advantage (FSS)

By: Pankaj Ghemawat
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  • November – December 2011
  • Article

Competitive Strategy for Open Source Software

By: Vineet Kumar, Brett Gordon and Kannan Srinivasan
Commercial open source software (COSS) products-privately developed software based on publicly available source code-represent a rapidly growing, multibillion-dollar market. A unique aspect of competition in the COSS market is that many open source licenses require... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Competitive Strategy; Product Development; Growth and Development; Markets; Motivation and Incentives; Quality; Policy; Perspective; Profit; Open Source Distribution; Emerging Markets
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  • April 1986 (Revised March 1987)
  • Case

U.S. Competitiveness in Manufacturing

By: Norman A. Berg
Keywords: Competition; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Production; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 2013
  • Chapter

Market Imperfections and Sustainable Competitive Advantage

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis Yao
This chapter reviews the main theories in strategic management that seek to explain persistent differences in profitability across companies. We argue that these differences are ultimately explained by market imperfections. Studying differences in financial performance... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Management; Market Imperfections; Five Forces Framework; Competitive Advantage; Profit
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  • 22 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Platform Competition under Asymmetric Information

Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda & Yaron Yehezkel; Technology
  • August 2013
  • Article

Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices

By: Victor Manuel Bennett, Lamar Pierce, Jason A. Snyder and Michael W. Toffel
Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but that violate government regulations, especially when... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Crime and Corruption; Management Practices and Processes; Ethics; Consumer Behavior; Customer Satisfaction; Auto Industry; Service Industry
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  • Article

Competition for Scarce Resources

By: Peter Eso, Volker Nocke and Lucy White
We model a downstream industry where firms compete to buy capacity in an upstream market that allocates capacity efficiently. Although downstream firms have symmetric production technologies, we show that industry structure is symmetric only if capacity is sufficiently... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Natural Environment; Technology; Production; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Demand and Consumers; Industry Structures; Performance Capacity
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  • 15 Feb 2012
  • Other Presentation

The New Competitive Advantage: Creating Shared Value

By: Michael E. Porter
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); "What is Strategy?" (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); and On... View Details
Keywords: Society; United States
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

The Determinants of National Competitiveness

By: Mercedes Delgado, Christian Ketels, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
We define foundational competitiveness as the expected level of output per working-age individual that is supported by the overall quality of a country as a place to do business. The focus on output per potential worker, a broader measure of national productivity than... View Details
Keywords: Country; Competition; Microeconomics; Macroeconomics
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  • 27 Apr 2007
  • Other Presentation

Competitiveness in the Global Economy: Sweden’s Position

By: Michael E. Porter
Competitiveness presentation delivered during the Globalization Council in Stockholm, Sweden. View Details
Keywords: Economics; Sweden
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  • Research Summary

Managing Human Resources for Competitive Advantage

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
This stream of research is leading to a study of companies that are gaining competitive advantage through their ability to attract, recruit, develop, deploy, and retain superior human resources. The objective is to develop a more strategically-based and general... View Details
  • July 1997 (Revised April 2000)
  • Background Note

Competition and Business Strategy in Historical Perspective

Describes the contributions of strategic concepts in the business world, and how they came to be influenced by competitive thinking. View Details
Keywords: Competition; Business Strategy
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  • 2009
  • Report

Clusters, Cluster Policy, and Swedish Competitiveness

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Proximity enables firms to take advantage of knowledge spill-overs and exploit supplierdemand linkages with other entities engaged in related activities. Cluster strength thus seems to be one of the important determinants of prosperity differences across geographies.... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Industry Clusters; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Sweden
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  • September 2009 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

Colombia: Organizing for Competitiveness

By: Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Michael E. Porter
The case is designed to explore the process of building competitiveness, particularly in an unstable environment, with a focus on organizing for competitiveness. View Details
Keywords: Microeconomics; Industry Clusters; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Colombia
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  • spring 1995
  • Article

Competitive Response and Equilibria

By: R. Lal and V. Padmanabhan
Keywords: Competition
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  • 16 Feb 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Platform Competition Under Partial Belief Advantage

Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda & Yaron Yehezkel; Consumer Products
  • 03 Nov 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

How Did Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings?

Keywords: by Bo Becker & Todd Milbourn; Financial Services
  • 1989
  • Book

Future Competition in Telecommunications

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Jerry A. Hausman
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Competition; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 2017
  • Report

The Competitive Advantage of Racial Equity

By: Mark R. Kramer, Angela Glover Blackwell, Lalitha Vaidyanathan, Lakshmi Iyer and Josh Kirschenbaum
Corporate America is missing out on one of the biggest opportunities of our time for driving innovation and growth: creating business value by advancing racial equity.
Developed in partnership with PolicyLink and funded by the Ford and W.K. Kellogg foundations,... View Details
Keywords: Racial Equity; Diversity; Race; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation
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  • 1993
  • Chapter

Global Competition in Technology

By: Stephen P. Bradley, R. L. Nolan and J. A. Hausman
Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Competition; Information Technology; Technology Industry
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