Winning Strategies in a Deconstructing World - 9780471496878

Winning Strategies in a Deconstructing WorldAuthor(s): Rudi K. F. Bresser, Michael A. Hitt, Robert D. Nixon, Dieter Heuskel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc\nISBN-13: 9780471496878, 978-0471496878\nSynopsis\nThe end of the nineteenth century saw the construction of the vertically integrated value chains that came to define modern business. The end of the twentieth century witnessed their deconstruction. In industries across the economy, markets are intruding on the web of proprietary arrangements that have held these chains together. As they do, the boundaries defining business, companies and industries are coming under attack - radically transforming the nature of competition. Powerful forces, such as globalization and deregulation, are undermining the logic and practice of traditional vertical integration, but the most powerful - partly because it acts as catalyst and an accelerator - is a revolution in the e.