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Book | 1990

The Competitive Advantage of Nations

by M. E. Porter

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Abstract

In the modern competitive marketplace, nations have their own competitive advantages. These are investigated and discussed in-depth.

Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Economics;

Format: Print 875 pages ISBN: 0029253616 Find at Harvard

Citation:

Porter, M. E. The Competitive Advantage of Nations. New York: Free Press, 1990. (Republished with a new introduction, 1998.)

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  1. Book | 1998

    The Competitive Advantage of Nations

    M. E. Porter

    In the modern competitive marketplace, nations have their own competitive advantages. These are investigated and discussed in-depth.

    Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Economics;

    Citation:

    Porter, M. E. The Competitive Advantage of Nations. 2nd ed. New York: Free Press, 1998. (1st ed. New York: Free Press, 1990.)  View Details
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    In 2006, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was an internationally leading institution for cancer care, education, and research. Since 1996, it had successfully reorganized itself from a cancer hospital that was physically organized around clinical specialties into one that was organized into disease-based integrated practice units called multidisciplinary care centers. These units were supported by a new construction project that had created new disease-specific facilities and a widely-supported administrative plan in which physicians reported both to leadership of specialty-based academic departments and disease-based clinical centers.

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