Overview

"In this pathbreaking book, Richard D'Aveni shows how competitive moves and countermoves escalate with such ferocity today that the traditional sources of competitive advantage can no longer be sustained. D'Aveni argues that a company must fundamentally shift its strategic focus. He constructs a compre-hensive model that shows how firms move up ""escalation ladders"" as advantage is continually created, eroded, destroyed, and recreated through strategic maneuvering in ""four arenas"" of competition. Using detailed examples from hypercompetitive industries such as computers, automobiles, and pharmaceuticals, D'Aveni demon-strates how hypercompetitive firms succeed by disrupting the status quo and creating a continuous series of temporary advantages. With its emphasis on real-world experiences of corporate warfare, this abridged paperback edition of D'Aveni's masterwork will be essential reading for scholars and managers alike - a perfect introduction to the battlefield of hypercompetitive rivalries."

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Author:   Richard A. D'aveni
Publisher:   Simon & Schuster
Imprint:   The Free Press
Edition:   Abridged edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.355kg
ISBN:  

9780028741123

ISBN 10:   0028741129
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 September 1995
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Table of Contents

New Foreword By Kathryn Rudie Harrigan 1995 Foreword for Cloth Edition By Ian C. Macmillian INTRODUCTION Part I: Hypercompetition and Escalation toward Perfect Competition in Four Arenas of Competition 1. How Firms Outmaneuver Competitors with Cost-Quality Advantages 2. How Firms Outmaneuver Competitors with Timing and Know-How Advantages 3. How Firms Outmaneuver Competitors that Have Built Strongholds Using Entry Barriers 4. How Firms Outmaneuver Competitors with Deep Pockets Part II: Implications of Unsustainable Advantage: New Concepts of Competition and Competitive Strategy 5. The Nature of Hypercompetition: What It Is and Why It Happens 6. Applying the New 7-S's: New Analytical Tools to Seize the Initiative CONCLUSION ENDNOTES INDEX

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Fortune Magazine A modern day analogue to The Art of War.

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Richard A. D'Aveni teaches business strategy at the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and consults for several Fortune 500 corporations. He received the A.T. Kearney Award for his research on why big companies fail, and has been profiled as one of the next generation's promising new management thinkers by Wirtschafts-Woche, Germany's equivalent to Business Week.

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