Competitive Advantage (Porter)
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Competitive Advantage (Porter)
| Full title | Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance |
|---|---|
| Author | Michael E. Porter |
| Published | 1985 |
| Pages | 557 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The sequel to Competitive Strategy that moved Porter’s analysis from the industry down into the firm — the value chain, the generic strategies, and the insistence that advantage be traced to something specific a company does differently. It supplies the vocabulary for the question an owner has to answer: why this business earns more than its competitors, and whether that can hold. |
Competitive Advantage (Porter)
Where I heard about it
- Li Lu — on Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, entry 41 of section IV (Value Investing, Finance, and Capitalism), cited as the Free Press 1998 reissue.
- On Nate Poulin’s DTC/Business reading list, posted September 2020 and saved by Kyle as I’m building a DTCBusiness reading… (tweet).
Connections
- Li Lu’s Recommended Book List — the list this came from.
- Li Lu — the Himalaya Capital founder who assembled it.
- Michael Porter — the author.
- Competitive Advantage — the concept page this book named.
- Moats — the investor’s version of the same question: what makes the advantage durable.
- Strategy — the discipline the value chain was written for.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.