Competition Demystified
Competition Demystified

Author: Bruce C. Greenwald

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-08-18

Total Pages: 651

ISBN-13: 1101218436

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Bruce Greenwald, one of the nation's leading business professors, presents a new and simplified approach to strategy that cuts through much of the fog that has surrounded the subject. Based on his hugely popular course at Columbia Business School, Greenwald and his coauthor, Judd Kahn, offer an easy-to-follow method for understanding the competitive structure of your industry and developing an appropriate strategy for your specific position. Over the last two decades, the conventional approach to strategy has become frustratingly complex. It's easy to get lost in a sophisticated model of your competitors, suppliers, buyers, substitutes, and other players, while losing sight of the big question: Are there barriers to entry that allow you to do things that other firms cannot?

Barriers to Competition
Barriers to Competition

Author: Ana Rosado Cubero

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-09-30

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1317315960

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Focuses on the different methods that economic science has employed in order to detect and measure barriers to entry. This book presents a chronological analysis of competing Harvard and Chicago Schools' interpretations of this phenomenon.

Competitive Strategy
Competitive Strategy

Author: Michael E. Porter

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780684005775

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In this pathbreaking book, Michael E. Porter unravels the rules that govern competition and turns them into powerful analytical tools to help management interpret market signals and forecast the direction of industry development.

Strategic Interaction and Markets
Strategic Interaction and Markets

Author: Jean J. Gabszewicz

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2000-01-06

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 0191518883

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Perfect competition provides the model of a frictionless economy, in which price-setting economic agents behave independently of each other, abandoning to the market the coordination of their individual decisions. The implications of this model are extensively presented in the traditional price theory textbooks. Imperfect competition is the paradigm that develops as soon as economic agents interact in a conscious manner, which is the rule when competition takes place amongst a restricted number of agents. In this system, agents act strategically, taking into account the impact of their decisions on competitors' behaviour and on the price mechanism. Such situations commonly arise when firms differentiate their products, erect strategic entry barriers, or exploit the imperfect information of their customers about the price or characteristics of their product. This book explores the theoretical richness of these economic contexts, using some basic tools of game theory. Designed as an ancillary text for graduate students, it not only summarizes the historic contributions made by economic theorists such as Cournot and Edgeworth, but also makes accessible many of the most recent developments in the same field.