Talk:Competitive advantage

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Contents 1 Promotion in the article? 2 Different types of competitive advantage? 2.1 oops 3 Alternative Definition

[edit] Promotion in the article?

Jaynie L. Smith is not a distinctive author in the field of management sciences. The concept of competitive advantage goes way back in time and to different authors. Thus, that part about her/his book feels like promotion... H0ff3r (talk) 02:21, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Different types of competitive advantage?

It seems like this redirect to "sustainable competitive advantage" focuses on competitive advantage in the business world and ignores the the usage of "competitive advantage" amongst nations. Thus it might be useful to have a disambiguation article of sorts. Goodralph 04:59, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] oops

oops, I was thinking about Comparative advantage. nevermind. Goodralph 05:01, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Alternative Definition

I disagree with Porter's definition because it really is the definition of positioning (mapping product benefits or company attributes relative to the alternatives). Also, the sentence about A firm possesses a sustainable competitive advantage when it has value-creating ........... is the definition of the terms core competency (AKA distinctive competency). I therefore introduced an alternative definition that is more clear and consistent with modern marketing an business terminology.Spinacia (talk) 13:14, 19 May 2008 (UTC)