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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826633303321

Autore

Eldring Jan

Titolo

Porter's (1980) generic strategies, performance and risk : an empirical investigation with German data / / Jan Eldring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, : Diplomica Verlag, 2009

ISBN

3-8366-2426-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (78 p.)

Disciplina

658.8/04

658.804

Soggetti

Business planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Porter ́s (1980) Generic Strategies, Performance and Risk; TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; 1. Introduction; 2. Theory and Hypotheses; 3. Data and Method; 4. Analysis and Results; 5. Discussion, Implications and Limitations; 6. Conclusion; 7. References; MIP; Curriculum Vitae

Sommario/riassunto

Porter's (1980) book Competitive Strategy has received a great deal of attention in the strategic management literature. Here Porter claims that competitive strategy is the search for a favorable competitive position in the industry, which can erode or improve, depending on a firm's choice of strategy. He derived a conceptual typology of three generic strategies that has already become a classic among scholars. They are cost leadership, differentiation and focus strategies. Just recently Michael Raynor (2007) challenged Porter's widely accepted typology, by including another dimension in the d