essence of the job of the strategist is to cope with competition. The arena in which competition takes place is the industry in which a company and its rivals vie for business. Each industry has a distinctive structure that shapes the nature of competitive interaction that unfolds there. Understanding the underlying structure of a company’s industry, now and in the future, is a core discipline in strategy formation. On the surface, every industry is different. Consider the global automobile industry
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broad array of product lines Amazon offered in the US, launch new Marketplace1 activities, or expand into other European countries. In addition, Amazon Europe had to decide which of its activities it should coordinate or consolidate at the European level. Tom Taylor had been transferred from Amazon US to Europe in June 2002 to address some of these issues and, in the words of his then boss, Senior VP of Operations Jeff Wilke, help Europe “catch the US in five years.” Taylor felt that a lot had been
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ELEVENTH EDITION Management LEADING & COLLABORATING IN A COMPETITIVE WORLD Thomas S. Bateman McIntire School of Commerce University of Virginia Scott A. Snell Darden Graduate School of Business University of Virginia MANAGEMENT: LEADING & COLLABORATING IN A COMPETITIVE WORLD, ELEVENTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill Education, 2 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10121. Copyright © 2015 by McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Previous editions
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