„The firm achieving focus may also potentially earn above-average returns for its industry. Its focus means that the firm either has a low cost position with its strategic target, high differentiation, or both.“

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— Michael E. Porter

Quelle: Competitive strategy, 1980, p. 39

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US-amerikanischer Ökonom, Professor für Wirtschaftswissensc… 1947

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— Constantinos C. Markides Cypriot business theorist 1960

Quelle: "Related diversification, core competences and corporate performance", 1994, p. 164

„Firms that have a high BE/ME (a low stock price relative to book value) tend to have low earnings on assets. Conversely, low BE/ME (a high stock price relative to book value) is associated with persistently high earnings.“

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— Eugene Fama American economist and Nobel laureate in Economics 1939

Quelle: Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds, 1993, p. 8

„In the network economy a firm's primary focus shifts from maximizing the firm«s value to maximizing the network's value.“

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— Kevin Kelly American author and editor 1952

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

„Organizational and not financial or ownership embeddedness is likely to be a more important cause of actions of firms than anything else in the case of United States. This means efforts should concentrate on specifying models of relations between firms that focus on intra- and interorganizational processes, such as the construction of strategic action and the cultural frames by which such a construction makes sense.“

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— Neil Fligstein American sociologist 1951

Quelle: The architecture of markets, 2001, p. 145

„Of all possible resources that a firm might posses, its knowledge base has perhaps the greatest ability to serve as a source of sustainable differentiation and hence competitive advantage.“

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— Vijay Govindarajan American academic 1949

Anil Kumar Gupta and Vijay Govindarajan. "Knowledge flows within multinational corporations." Strategic management journal 21.4 (2000). p. 473

„A fundamental part of any firm's corporate strategy is its choice of what portfolio of business to compete in. According to the academic literature, this decision should reflect the 'superiority' of related diversification over unrelated diversification… This is because related diversification presumably allows the corporate center to exploit the interrelationships that exist among its different businesses (SBUs) and so achieve cost and/or differentiation competitive advantages over its rivals.“

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— Constantinos C. Markides Cypriot business theorist 1960

Quelle: "Related diversification, core competences and corporate performance", 1994, p. 149

„What we now have is too much focus on short-term revenues and almost no focus on the long-term survival or success of the firm. This is why you don't see anything very innovative out of firms like Apple.“

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— Rob Enderle American financial analyst 1954

Why Are Tech Companies Trying to Kill Us? http://technewsworld.com/story/84944.html in Tech News World (13 November 2017)

„If a top management team cannot clearly articulate the five or six fundamental industry trends that most threaten its firm's continued success, it is not in control of the firm's destiny.“

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— Gary Hamel American management expert 1954

Quelle: Competing for the Future, 1996, p. 73

„My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer.“

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— Georg Cantor mathematician, inventor of set theory 1845 - 1918

As quoted in Journey Through Genius (1990) by William Dunham
Kontext: My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because I have studied it from all sides for many years; because I have examined all objections which have ever been made against the infinite numbers; and above all because I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things.

„The firm-as-portfolio model implies both a practice (growth through diversification) and a form (the conglomerate). Unrelated diversification entails buying businesses in industries that are neither potential buyers, suppliers, competitors, or complements to the firm’s current business.“

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— Neil Fligstein American sociologist 1951

Quelle: The transformation of corporate control, 1993, p. 229

„The finance conception of the modern corporation, which currently dominates, emphasizes control through the use of financial tools which measure performance according to profit rates. Product lines are evaluated on their short-run profitability and important management decisions are based on the potential profitability of each line. Firms are viewed as collections of assets earning differing rates of return, not as producers of given goods. The firm is not seen as being a member of only one industry. Consequently if the prospect of an industry in which it participates declines, the firm disinvests. The problem for management from this perspective is to maximize short-run rates of return by altering product mix, thereby increasing shareholder equity and keeping the stock price high“

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— Neil Fligstein American sociologist 1951

Quelle: The transformation of corporate control, 1993, p. 15

„Value innovation requires companies to orient the whole system toward achieving a leap in value for both buyers. The simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low cost.“

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— W. Chan Kim, buch Blue Ocean Strategy

Quelle: Blue Ocean Strategy, 2005, p. 17-18 (2016 extended edition)

„We define CSR as a firm's voluntary consideration of stakeholder concerns both within and outside its business operations.“

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— Christian Homburg German academic 1962

Quelle: "Corporate social responsibility in business-to-business markets", 2013, p. 54

„The limit to the size of the firm is set where its costs of organizing a transaction become equal to the cost of carrying it out through the market. This determines what the firm buys, produces, and sells. As the concept of transaction costs is not usually used by economists, it is not surprising that an approach which incorporates it will find some difficulty in getting itself accepted. We can best understand this attitude if we consider not the firm but the market.“

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— Ronald H. Coase British economist and author 1910 - 2013

1960s-1980s, "The Firm, the Market, and the Law" (1988)

„Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.“

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— Akio Morita Japanese businessman 1921 - 1999

Quelle: Made in Japan (1986), p. 168.

„Scientific management… has for its very foundation the firm conviction that the true interests of the two are one and the same; that prosperity for the employer cannot exist through a long term of years unless it is accompanied by prosperity for the employe, and vice versa; and that it is possible to give the workman what he most wants high wages and the employer what he wants a low labor cost for his manufactures.“

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— Frederick Winslow Taylor American mechanical engineer and tennis player 1856 - 1915

Quelle: Principles of Scientific Management, 1911, p. 10; As cited in: Frank B. Gilbreth (1912). Primer of scientific management https://archive.org/stream/primerofscientif00gilbrich#page/1/mode/1up, p. 12.

„Value innovation is created in the region where a company's actions favorably affect both its cost structure and its value proposition to buyers. Cost saving are made by eliminating and reducing the factors an industry competes on. Buyer value is lifted by raising and creating elements the industry has never offered. Over time, costs are reduced further as scale economics kick in due to the high sales volumes that superior value generates.“

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— W. Chan Kim, buch Blue Ocean Strategy

Quelle: Blue Ocean Strategy, 2005, p. 15