Business Week Rich in lessons about why and how industries, regions, and nations succeed or fail.
The Economist An all-embracing view of economic change that amounts in the end to a powerful analytic framework. Porter has done for international capitalism what Marx did for the class struggle....A real achievement.
Administrative Science Quarterly Should have a profound and far-reaching impact on academic course work, managers' perceptions, and public policy.
Business in a Contemporary WorldThe Competitive Advantage of Nations is destined to become a classic in its field.
Journal of Development Economics The first serious attempt to develop a really original grand theory of national economic development processes since the early years of Postwar development economics, and one of the most original ways of thinking about development policy in years.
Publishers Weekly This massive, impressive, salient tome is structured so that business executives, economists, policy-makers and ordinary readers can turn to the sections most relevant to their needs.
