Talk:Porter generic strategies

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I am not sure about the copyright status of the picture I included with this article. It is a very common diagram and can be found in most strategy text books, but it originally came from the Porter book which is copyrighted. I have made significant changes to the diagram and have cited the source. I hope the modifications will mitigate any potential copyright conflicts. - - mydogategodshat 22:56, 11 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I disagree with one of the statements in the article. "Companies with a medium market share are not viable". Many industries that are an oligopoly or cartel have a medium market share. However, you could argue that in that case the cartel is effectively one big player rather than several medium players. For example Coca-Cola has around 40-60% market share historically; if it had a larger share, it would be subject to anti-monopoly restrictions. So, Coca-Cola intentially doesn't pursue 100% market share.

I agree. There are some instances there a medium market share is viable and I think Porter would agree. He is claiming that these three strategies are the best out of the 29 possible options. I don't think that just because he prefers these three that he rejects the other 26. mydogategodshat 00:35, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)
By the way, a company need not obtain 100% market share to be considered a dominant low cost leader. 50 or 60% seems dominant enough to me. mydogategodshat 00:38, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)llolo

[edit] whole section of OR removed.

The section (crit) I have just removed comes from here - the link speaks for itself - http://www.siamventure.net/competitive_advantage.htm

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No here buddy get a blog.

--Charlesknight 20:48, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong redirection to German version

The German (Deutsch) version should link to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wettbewerbsmatrix —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.157.215.172 (talk) 02:54, 11 October 2007 (UTC)