Michael Porter

Michael Porter is a professor at Harvard Business School. In the early 1980’s he developed the Generic strategy wherein he postulated that a firm’s success in strategy rests upon how it positions itself in respect to its competitive environment. He further argued that to achieve sustainable competitive advantage (SAS) a firm's strengths will ultimately fall into one of the two headings: cost advantage and differentiation. Applying these strengths in either a broad or narrow scope, results in…

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Porter’s position on strategy is that firms should strive to achieve a competitive advantage that allows them to outperform their competitors. Porter positions that to sustain the firm’s competitive advantage (Porter, Competitive Advantage, The Free Press, 1980), firms should choose a strategy amongst three generic strategies being cost leadership, differentiation or focus (IMAGE). The cost leadership strategy involves the firm winning market share by having the lowest overall price (or the best…

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competitive advantage. The ultimate goal for a company’s future survival or success is to meet customer demands while keeping the costs down. Michael Porter, the write of “competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance”, defines three cost leadership approaches as generic strategies (Porter 's Generic Strategies, 2015). According to Porter, generic strategies include Cost Leadership, Differentiation, and Focus. He also subdivided the Focus strategy into two parts of Cost…

Michael Porter (1980) introduced a conceptual typology of generic strategies emphasizing on organisation’s positioning within their industry (See figure 1). Organisation must choose one of his three strategies not only to achieve above-average performance to gain sustainable com-petitive advantage, but also to cope better with rivals in the market place (Hitt, Ireland, & Ho-skisson, 2017). Figure 1: Porter’s Three Generic Strategies (source: Porter (1998), p. 39) Cost leadership, his…

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Michael Porter, an economic researcher, examined the competitive behaviors that comprise successful businesses. In the early 1980s, he set out to uncover the ways companies maintain long-term advantages over their competitors. Through this work he created Porter’s Generic Strategies, three interconnected concepts that most organizations use to develop key operating procedures and outmaneuver competitors. This paper will seek to to discuss generic strategies, their meaning and how they apply in…