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Competitive Strategy For Dummies

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Competitive Strategy For Dummies by Richard Pettinger is a practical guide that helps readers understand and apply strategic management principles to gain a competitive advantage in business. The book offers insights into market analysis, strategic planning, and effective implementation of strategies, making it an essential resource for business owners and entrepreneurs aiming to succeed in a competitive environment.
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Competitive Strategy For Dummies

Fundamental to management thinking and economic theory, Competitive Strategy offers a framework for understanding the underlying forces of competition in industry and business. This book explains the ideas, theories and principles of Competitive Strategy in simple, straightforward terms.

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Fundamental to management thinking and economic theory, Competitive Strategy for Dummies offers a framework for understanding the underlying forces of competition in industry and business.

This book explains the ideas, theories, and principles of Competitive Strategy in simple, straightforward terms. It shows readers how to use competitive tools and strategies to understand the underlying forces of competition in industry and business, and apply them to assess industries, understand competitors, choose competitive positions, and gainβ€” and maintainβ€”competitive advantage.

Chapters include:

  • What Competitive Strategy actually is
  • The foundations of strategy and the five forces of competition
  • Assessing the competition and strategic management in action
  • Developing a competitive strategy
  • Looking to the future and mergers and acquisitions

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470779309

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 April 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: For Dummies

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 38.0mm

Width: 193.0mm

Height: 239.0mm

Weight: 726g

Pages: 392

About the Author

Richard Pettinger is a lecturer in Business Management at University College London where he teaches undergraduate, postgraduate, MBA and international courses. Richard is the adapting author of Managing For Dummies and Weekend MBA For Dummies.

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