Strategic management: From informed conversation to academic discipline
讨论波特《竞争战略》一书，赞扬其将战略管理从对话发展为学科，聚焦产业分析和经济理论，兼顾社会福利，对学者和实践者均有启发。
The article discusses the book “Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors,” by Michael E. Porter. The author sees Porter's intellectual prowess in acknowledging the components of strategic management, and then focusing on a single objective of strategic management research and practice that would facilitate the development of the field without entirely abandoning concerns for stakeholders besides a firm's equity holders. The author praises Porter for helping the field understand the dependent variable of economic theory, focusing on the industry as the unit of analysis, and the role of social welfare in strategic research management and practice. Porter's approach to applying the structure, conduct, and performance paradigm is also mentioned as being greatly influential.