Michael E Porter
Biographic Data
| ID | 368313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael E Porter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael E |
| FAMILY NAME | Porter |
| SIGNATURE | PORTER M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9380-6625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 987 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Critical Supply Shortages — The Need for Ventilators and Personal Protective Equipment during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Defining clusters of related industries
Clusters are geographic concentrations of industries related by knowledge, skills, inputs, demand and/or other linkages. There is an increasing need for cluster-based data to support research, facilitate comparisons of clusters across regions and support policymakers in defining regional strategies. This article develops a novel clustering algorithm that systematically generates and assesses sets of cluster definitions (i.e., groups of closely re…
Clusters, convergence, and economic performance
Clusters and Entrepreneurship
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Canada at the Crossroads: The Reality of a New Competitive Environment
From a declaration of values to the creation of value in global health: A report from Harvard University's Global Health Delivery Project
To make best use of the new dollars available for the treatment of disease in resource-poor settings, global health practice requires a strategic approach that emphasises value for patients. Practitioners and global health academics should seek to identify and elaborate the set of factors that drives value for patients through the detailed study of actual care delivery organisations in multiple settings. Several frameworks can facilitate this stu…
Competition in Japan
This article examines competition in Japan and its link to postwar economic prosperity. While Japan's industrial structure and competition policy seem to indicate that competition in Japan has been less intense, the empirical evidence does not support this conclusion. The sectors in which competition was restricted prove to be those where Japan was not internationally successful. In the internationally successful sectors, internal competition in …
The Economic Performance of Regions
P ORTER M. E. (2003) The economic performance of regions, Reg. Studies 37 , 549-578. This paper examines the basic facts about the regional economic performance, the composition of regional economies and the role of clusters in the US economy over period of 1990 to 2000. The performance of regional economies varies markedly in terms of wage, wage growth, employment growth and patenting rate. Based on the distribution of economic activity across g…
The determinants of national innovative capacity
The Global Competitiveness Report 2001-2002
Can Japan Compete
Competing at Home to Win Abroad: Evidence from Japanese Industry
The study explores the influence of domestic competition on international trade performance, using data from a broad sample of Japanese industries. Domestic rivalry is measured directly using market-share instability rather than employing structural variables such as seller concentration. We find robust evidence that domestic rivalry has a positive and significant relationship with trade performance measured by world export share, particularly wh…
Can Japan Compete
Location, Competition, and Economic Development: Local Clusters in a Global Economy
Economic geography during an era of global competition involves a paradox. It is widely recognized that changes in technology and competition have diminished many of the traditional roles of location. Yet clusters, or geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, are a striking feature of virtually every national, regional, state, and even metropolitan economy, especially in more advanced nations. The prevalence of clusters reveals impor…
The Persistence of Shocks to Profitability
In this study, we use data for 1981 through 1994 on a large sample of U.S. companies to examine the persistence of incremental industry, corporate-parent, and business-specific effects on profitability. Our results indicate that the incremental effects of industry on profitability persist longer than the incremental effects of the corporate parent and of the specific business. Changes in industry structure have a more persistent impact on profita…
Fixing What Really Ails Japan
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Industrial Ecology and Competitiveness: Strategic Implications for the Firm
In the emerging field of industrial ecology one of the unsettled questions is the degree to which design for the environment, closing energy and materials loops, and other industrial ecology concepts apply at the firm level. In this article we examine this issue with a particular focus on whether industrial ecology can guide company strategy and efforts to enhance competitiveness. We conclude that industrial ecology thinking will often be useful …
Competitive Strategy
Strategy may not be the most dynamic word in the business lexicon, but reports of its death as a core discipline are premature. The analytical approach to strategy first put forward in 1980 by Professor Michael E. Porter of the Harvard Business School was a watershed in business analysis. Measuring Business Excellence revisits Competitive Strategy, Professor Porter's seminal work, and finds that it remains a powerful framework for understanding t…
Competitive Advantage, Agglomeration Economies, and Regional Policy
An Economic Strategy for America's Inner Cities: Addressing the Controversy
Inner cities must compete, and can compete. Developing a new strategy will require an understanding of what is unique about each inner city, how to build on its advantages, and a plan to eliminate or reduce the many disadvantages to conducting business. This process will require the commitment and involvement of business, government, and the nonprofit sector
Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship
Accepting a fixed trade-off between environmental regulation and competitiveness unnecessarily raises costs and slows down environmental progress. Studies finding high environmental compliance costs have traditionally focused on static cost impacts, ignoring any offsetting productivity benefits from innovation. They typically overestimated compliance costs, neglected innovation offsets, and disregarded the affected industry's initial competitiven…
Global Markets and Competition
Essay
Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship
Accepting a fixed trade-off between environmental regulation and competitiveness unnecessarily raises costs and slows down environmental progress. Studies finding high environmental compliance costs have traditionally focused on static cost impacts, ignoring any offsetting productivity benefits from innovation. They typically overestimated compliance costs, neglected innovation offsets, and disregarded the affected industry's initial competitiven…
The Economic Performance of Regions
P ORTER M. E. (2003) The economic performance of regions, Reg. Studies 37 , 549-578. This paper examines the basic facts about the regional economic performance, the composition of regional economies and the role of clusters in the US economy over period of 1990 to 2000. The performance of regional economies varies markedly in terms of wage, wage growth, employment growth and patenting rate. Based on the distribution of economic activity across g…
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
The Global Competitiveness Report 2001-2002
Defining clusters of related industries
Clusters are geographic concentrations of industries related by knowledge, skills, inputs, demand and/or other linkages. There is an increasing need for cluster-based data to support research, facilitate comparisons of clusters across regions and support policymakers in defining regional strategies. This article develops a novel clustering algorithm that systematically generates and assesses sets of cluster definitions (i.e., groups of closely re…
Clusters and Entrepreneurship
Fixing What Really Ails Japan
An Economic Strategy for America's Inner Cities: Addressing the Controversy
Inner cities must compete, and can compete. Developing a new strategy will require an understanding of what is unique about each inner city, how to build on its advantages, and a plan to eliminate or reduce the many disadvantages to conducting business. This process will require the commitment and involvement of business, government, and the nonprofit sector
Consumer Behavior, Retailer Power and Market Performance in Consumer Goods Industries
Scale Economies in Statistical Analyses of Market Power
B AINis (1956) analysis of the sources of barriers to new competition suggests that scale economies to the plant or firm allow sellers to elevate price somewhat above average cost without attracting new rivals. Multivariate statistical analyses of the determinants of seller concentration and profits henceforth have included measures of scale economies among their independent variables. However, direct measures, based on engineering or survey evid…
From Entry Barriers to Mobility Barriers: Conjectural Decisions and Contrived Deterrence to New Competition
I. Interdependence and conjecture in entry, 242.—II. Barriers to mobility, 249.—III. Diversification by established firms and intergroup mobility, 257.—IV. Conclusion, 261.
The Structure within Industries and Companies' Performance
THE theory of industrial organization has by and large viewed the industry as a homogeneous unit. Firms in an industry are assumed to be alike in all economically important dimensions except for their size. In this context, a considerable body of research posits that many industries are characterized by the existence of market power among their firms.1 This market power results, following Bain and others, from the presence of structural barriers …
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Competitive Advantage of Nations
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Essay
Towards a dynamic theory of strategy
This paper reviews the progress of the strategy field towards developing a truly dynamic theory of strategy. It separates the theory of strategy into the causes of superior performance at a given period in time (termed the cross-sectional problem) and the dynamic process by which competitive positions are created (termed the longitudinal problem). The cross-sectional problem is logically prior to a consideration of dynamics, and better understood…
Global Markets and Competition
Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship
Accepting a fixed trade-off between environmental regulation and competitiveness unnecessarily raises costs and slows down environmental progress. Studies finding high environmental compliance costs have traditionally focused on static cost impacts, ignoring any offsetting productivity benefits from innovation. They typically overestimated compliance costs, neglected innovation offsets, and disregarded the affected industry's initial competitiven…
Competitive Advantage, Agglomeration Economies, and Regional Policy
An Economic Strategy for America's Inner Cities: Addressing the Controversy
Inner cities must compete, and can compete. Developing a new strategy will require an understanding of what is unique about each inner city, how to build on its advantages, and a plan to eliminate or reduce the many disadvantages to conducting business. This process will require the commitment and involvement of business, government, and the nonprofit sector
Competitive Strategy
Strategy may not be the most dynamic word in the business lexicon, but reports of its death as a core discipline are premature. The analytical approach to strategy first put forward in 1980 by Professor Michael E. Porter of the Harvard Business School was a watershed in business analysis. Measuring Business Excellence revisits Competitive Strategy, Professor Porter's seminal work, and finds that it remains a powerful framework for understanding t…
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
Industrial Ecology and Competitiveness: Strategic Implications for the Firm
In the emerging field of industrial ecology one of the unsettled questions is the degree to which design for the environment, closing energy and materials loops, and other industrial ecology concepts apply at the firm level. In this article we examine this issue with a particular focus on whether industrial ecology can guide company strategy and efforts to enhance competitiveness. We conclude that industrial ecology thinking will often be useful …
The Persistence of Shocks to Profitability
In this study, we use data for 1981 through 1994 on a large sample of U.S. companies to examine the persistence of incremental industry, corporate-parent, and business-specific effects on profitability. Our results indicate that the incremental effects of industry on profitability persist longer than the incremental effects of the corporate parent and of the specific business. Changes in industry structure have a more persistent impact on profita…
Fixing What Really Ails Japan
Location, Competition, and Economic Development: Local Clusters in a Global Economy
Economic geography during an era of global competition involves a paradox. It is widely recognized that changes in technology and competition have diminished many of the traditional roles of location. Yet clusters, or geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, are a striking feature of virtually every national, regional, state, and even metropolitan economy, especially in more advanced nations. The prevalence of clusters reveals impor…
Competing at Home to Win Abroad: Evidence from Japanese Industry
The study explores the influence of domestic competition on international trade performance, using data from a broad sample of Japanese industries. Domestic rivalry is measured directly using market-share instability rather than employing structural variables such as seller concentration. We find robust evidence that domestic rivalry has a positive and significant relationship with trade performance measured by world export share, particularly wh…
Can Japan Compete
The determinants of national innovative capacity
The Global Competitiveness Report 2001-2002
Can Japan Compete
The Economic Performance of Regions
P ORTER M. E. (2003) The economic performance of regions, Reg. Studies 37 , 549-578. This paper examines the basic facts about the regional economic performance, the composition of regional economies and the role of clusters in the US economy over period of 1990 to 2000. The performance of regional economies varies markedly in terms of wage, wage growth, employment growth and patenting rate. Based on the distribution of economic activity across g…
Economics (25 works) · Business (20 works) · Economic geography (12 works) · Industrial organization (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Competitive advantage (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (7 works) · Business Strategy and Innovation (6 works)