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基本信息·出版社：Portfolio Hardcover
·页码：416 页
·出版日期：2005年08月
·ISBN：1591840570
·条形码：9781591840572
·版本：2005-08-22
·装帧：精装
·开本：20开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：揭开竞争的面纱
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Book DescriptionIn Competition Demystified, Bruce Greenwald, one of the nation's leading economists, presents a new and simplified approach to business strategy that cuts through much of the fog that has surrounded the subject. Based on his course at Columbia Business School, Greenwald and co-author Judd Kahn offer an easy-to-follow method for understanding the competitive structure of your industry and developing an appropriate strategy for your specific position.
The authors illustrate their principles with detailed examples drawn from prominent companies in a wide range of industries, including Wal-Mart, Coors, Cisco, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Kodak, Sotheby's, Fox Broadcasting, and Coca-Cola.
SynopsisTHE MOST IMPORTANT NEW BOOK ON COMPETITIVE STRATEGY IN A QUARTER OF A CENTURY Since 1980, Michael Porter's classic Competitive Strategy has provided the methodology that most big companies use for strategic analysis. But now, distinguished Columbia Business School professor Bruce Greenwald offers a bold, new and much simpler theory. Porter identified a complex five-force model for studying competition in any market. But Greenwald argues that there is only one essential factor in determining competitive advantages: how easy it is for competitors to enter or expand in a given market. If a company can erect strong barriers to entry - through customer captivity, lower production costs or economies of scale - it can manage these advantages, anticipate competitors' moves or achieve stability through bargaining and cooperation. Greenwald draws on game theory to explain what you should do if barriers to entry are strong, weak or nonexistent. He covers a wide range of examples, from retail to telecommunications to auction houses. And his lessons can be applied whether your business is dominated by a single huge player, a handful of roughly equal players or no one at all. COMPETITION DEMYSTIFIED will give executives and strategic planners an indispensable new way to exploit competitive advantage and achieve exceptional profits and is destined to become a management classic.
Book Dimension length: (cm)22.8 width:(cm)15.4
作者简介 Bruce Greenwald is the Robert Heilbrun Professor of Economics at Columbia University Business School, where his class on strategy draws standing- room- only crowds. He and Judd Kahn are the authors of the business bestseller
Value Investing.
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From Publishers Weekly A conscious simplification of Michael Porter''s classic
Competitive Strategy, this book treats only one of Porter''s five forces, "potential entrants." According to the authors (
Value Investing), avoiding competition is the only way to escape "a level playing field in which anyone can join... [and] only the best... survive and prosper." Most of the book discusses ways to gain protected positions from which businesses can be run badly but still earn abnormal returns. Cutting prices, matching prices and using domination of one market to create a monopoly in another are all discussed; legality is mentioned only briefly and indirectly. The best of their recommendations is to find small, declining, local markets without existing competitors. Despite the title, the book seems aimed more at investors than managers. Stockholders appreciate the value of mediocre companies that generate steady, unexciting profits in local markets without much notice; they like them because the stock is cheap. Managers usually aspire to build something better, in order to make the stock expensive. Still, this book is a useful counterpoint to the idea that conflict and growth are good for their own sakes.
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New York Times the best of the strategy books now or soon to be in the stores... direct, non-academic... occasionally funny
The Globe and Mail Competition Demystified is superb, with a deft balance between theory and case studies that offer fascinating explanations of strategic adventures...
