Competitive Solutions: The Strategist's Toolkit
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"A fascinating read-combining economics and strategy. Just what we need at Samsung."--John Shin, Senior Consultant in Strategy and Leadership, Samsung Electronics, Ltd."Preston McAfee has produced a superb, remarkably comprehensive book on competitive strategy. It is accessible, accurate, and entertaining! Students will stay awake reading it. At its core are numerous examples from actual business settings that are clearly relevant to today's strategist."--Peter Cramton, University of Maryland"This is a very good book that goes a long way toward filling the need for a work on the economics of competition. It has the potential to substantially improve courses in competitive strategy. The coverage is wonderful, the examples are interesting, the informal arguments are excellent, and the style is engaging."--Mark Satterthwaite, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University"The very readable style, accessibility, and richness and recentness of examples differentiate this book from some of its competitors in a way that should make it popular with students. McAfee clearly knows his subject well, understands the connections between the theoretical and empirical scholarship in the economics of strategy and the practical challenges faced by strategists, and draws on the latest academic literature and a variety of relevant examples in making his points."--Eric Zitzewitz, Stanford Business School Benjamin E. Hermalin - Journal of Economic Literature [T]his book does an excellent job of translating the insights of modern IO into language that business students can readily grasp. . . . I am confident that this is a book that will be received by good students and will serve well as the main text in any strategy course that approaches the topic.
1Introduction12Industry analysis93Firm strategies364Differentiation615Product life cycle916Cooperation1137Organizational scope1488Incentives1879Antitrust20410Elementary statistics22511Pricing26012Auctions30313Signaling32414Bargaining35315Last words379
