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    Strategy: Porter's Five Forces Model: analysing industry structure Defining an industry An industry is a group of firms that market products which are close substitutes for each other (e.g. the car industry, the travel industry). Some industries are more   from OpPapers.com Read more »

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    1 The development of value chain. 1.1 The definition of the value chain. Michael Porter came up with the definition of the value chain in his book in 1985. Every firm is a collection of activities that are performed to design, produce, market, deliver, a   from OpPapers.com Read more »

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    Introduction - The value chain approach was developed by Michael Porter in the 1980s in his book “Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance” (Porter, 1985). The concept of value added, in the form of the value chain, can be util   from OpPapers.com Read more »

  • The Value Chain

    To better understand the activities through which a firm develops a competitive advantage and creates shareholder value, it is useful to separate the business system into a series of value-generating activities referred to as the value chain. In his 1985   from OpPapers.com Read more »

  • Michael Porter: Businesses need an image repair

    Michael Porter The Man: Is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School. Porter is every B-School student’s staple diet; gave the term ‘competitive advantage’ and several frameworks - Five Forces, Cost / Differentiation - to   from Moneycontrol.com Read more »

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About Michael Porter

Michael Eugene Porter (born 1947) is a University Professor at Harvard Business School, with academic interests in management and economics. He is the founder of a nonprofit organization called the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and one of the founders of The Monitor Group. Porter's main academic objectives focus on how a firm or a region can build a competitive advantage and develop competitive strategy. He is also a Fellow Member of the Strategic Management Society. Porter graduated from Princeton University in 1969, where he was an outstanding intercollegiate golfer. He has two daughters and is divorced. He has three dogs. One of his most significant contributions is the five forces.

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