Hypercompetitive Rivalries

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This text shows how competitive moves and countermoves in business escalate with such ferocity that the traditional sources of competitive advantage can no longer be sustained. D'Aveni argues that a company must fundamentally shift its strategic focus. He constructs a comprehensive model that shows how firms move up "escalation ladders" as advantage is continually created, eroded, destroyed and re-created through strategic manoeuvring in four arenas of competition. Using detailed examples from hypercompetitive industries such as computers, automobiles and pharmaceuticals, D'Aveni demonstrates how hypercompetitive firms succeed by disrupting the status quo and creating a continuous series of temporary advantages.

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Fortune Magazine A modern day analogue to The Art of War.

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Richard A. D'Aveni teaches business strategy at the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and consults for several Fortune 500 corporations. He received the A.T. Kearney Award for his research on why big companies fail, and has been profiled as one of the next generation's promising new management thinkers by Wirtschafts-Woche, Germany's equivalent to Business Week.