Henry: Understanding Strategic Management
Chapter 03
For a discussion of the five forces framework and strategic groups see:
Porter, M.E. (1980). Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analysing Industries and Competitors. Free Press, New York.
For an insight into the need for organizations to cooperate as well as compete with players in their competitive environment see:
Brandenburger, A. and Nalebuff, B.J. (1996). Co-opetition. Currency Doubleday, New York.
An informative read on the use of game theory for strategy formulation is:
Brandenburger, A. and Nalebuff, B.J. (1995). The right game: use game theory to shape strategy. Harvard Business Review, 73(4), 57–71.
For a discussion of hypercompetition see:
Aveni, R.A. (1994). Hypercompetition: Managing the Dynamics of Strategic Manoeuvring. Free Press, New York.


