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...

Given the opposing views expressed on this topic, I would like to summarize my position in two main points and then attempt to illustrate them.

Technological innovations can have Important strategic implications for individual companies and can greatly influence industries as a whole. Yet, not all technological change is strategically beneficial. This article focuses on ways to recognize and exploit the competitive significance of change.

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....

Why do some nations win or lose a share of world trade? Michael Porter, author of the two most widely quoted books on strategic management, has just published a masterful new book, The Competitive Advantage of Nations, which offers a theory to explain the triumph of some nations in some markets.