Competitive Advantage of Nations - by Michael E Porter (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>With "Competitive Strategy" and "Competitive Advantage", Michael Porter established himself as a leading authority on competitive advance. Now, he builds on the ideas of his earlier works to explore what makes a nation's firms and industries competitive in global markets and what propels national economic development.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Now beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter's <i>The Competitive Advantage of Nations</i> 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.</b> <p/>Based on research in ten leading trading nations, <i>The Competitive Advantage of Nations</i> 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 Porter shows how traditional comparative advantages such as natural resources and pools of labor have been superseded as sources of prosperity, and how broad macroeconomic accounts of competitiveness are insufficient.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. <p/> 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 <i>new</i> wealth of nations has become the standard by which all future work must be measured.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Administrative Science Quarterly</i> Should have a profound and far-reaching impact on academic course work, managers' perceptions, and public policy.<br><br><i>Business in a Contemporary World</i> <i>The Competitive Advantage of Nations</i> is destined to become a classic in its field.<br><br><i>Business Week</i> Rich in lessons about why and how industries, regions, and nations succeed or fail.<br><br><i>Journal of Development Economics</i> The first serious attempt to develop a really original grand theory of national economic development processes since the early years of Postwar development economics, and one of the most original ways of thinking about development policy in years.<br><br><i>Publishers Weekly</i> This massive, impressive, salient tome is structured so that business executives, economists, policy-makers and ordinary readers can turn to the sections most relevant to their needs.<br><br><i>The Economist</i> An all-embracing view of economic change that amounts in the end to a powerful analytic framework. Porter has done for international capitalism what Marx did for the class struggle....A real achievement.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Michael E. Porter, </b> one of the world's leading authorities on competitive strategy and international competitiveness, is the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. In 1983, Professor Porter was appointed to President Reagan's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness, the initiative that triggered the competitiveness debate in America. He serves as an advisor to heads of state, governors, mayors, and CEOs throughout the world. The recipient of the Wells Prize in Economics, the Adam Smith Award, three McKinsey Awards, and honorary doctorates from the Stockholm School of Economics and six other universities, Porter is the author of fourteen books, among them <i>Competitive Strategy, The Competitive Advantage of Nations, </i> and <i>Cases in Competitive Strategy, </i> all published by The Free Press. He lives in Brookline, Massachuset
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