Porter’s Competitive Advantage of Nations

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Porter’s Competitive Advantage of Nations Paper can be found here: http://www.economie.ens.fr/IMG/pdf/porter_1990_-_the_competitive_advantage_of_nations.pdf When we analyze, we are using “criteria” … and as such, I would like us to use “environmental factors” in our analysis. Such factors include but are not limited to the environmental factors that surround us … economic, political, regulatory, cultural, social, legal, technological, etc. Your analysis will be no shorter than five pages, not including cover, reference, appendix, contents, and will be done APA 6th format. As you’ll read, Porter speaks of the nature of his “Diamond Model” and speaks to the nature of competition on a global scale. As business students, we understand the nature of competition and have used Porter before … 5 forces model … value chain … etc. So when we look at the way organizations behave, organizations from individual firms, to nation states, we already have a perspective on why they do what they do organizationally … lets try to look at Porter in this reading, and see what the drivers might be … why do nation states as “organizations” act the way they do, decide the things they do, and what are the motivations …