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The essential complement to the pathbreaking book Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Advantage explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm. With over 30 printings in English and translated into thirteen languages, this second volume in Porter's landmark trilogy describes how a firm actually gains an advantage over its rivals. Competitive Advantage introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into "activities," or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage. Now an essential part of international business thinking, Competitive Advantage takes strategy from broad vision to an internally consistent configuration of activities. Its powerful framework provides the tools to understand the drivers of cost and a company's relative cost position. Porter's value chain enables managers to isolate the underlying sources of buyer value that will command a premium price, and the reasons why one product or service substitutes for another. He shows how competitive advantage lies not only in activities themselves but in the way activities relate to each other, to supplier activities, and to customer activities. Competitive Advantage also provides for the first time the tools to strategically segment an industry and rigorously assess the competitive logic of diversification. That the phrases "competitive advantage" and "sustainable competitive advantage" have become commonplace is testimony to the power of Porter's ideas. Competitive Advantage has guided countless companies, business school students, and scholars in understanding the roots of competition. Porter's work captures the extraordinary complexity of competition in a way that makes strategy both concrete and actionable.

迈克尔·波特，竞争战略和国际竞争力领域的国际权威之一，哈佛商学院商业管理学院的C.RolandChristensen教授。1983年，他被任命为里根总统的产业竞争委员会委员，开始引发美国的竞争力讨论。他曾为各州首脑、州长、市长和世界各国的CEO们作过咨询，并曾获得威尔斯经济学奖、亚当·斯密奖、三项迈肯锡奖，以及斯德哥尔摩和其他6个大学的荣誉博士学业位。波特教授有14本著作，其中包括：《竞争战略》、《竞争优势》和《竞争战略案例》，所有著作均由自由出版社出版。波特教授现住在麻萨诸塞州的布鲁克林。