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Are these two companies competitors? Are they in the same industry? How do they stack up against our text’s frameworks of achieving Competitive Advantage – either Michael Porter’s Industrial Organization framework or the Resource-based framework? You can use one framework to compare and contrast the two companies.
As a refresher, Porter’s “Industrial Organization framework” is simply using his “Five Forces Model to identify competitive advantage of the firm(s) involved; in other words, you look external to the firm to the source of competitive advantage. On the other hand, the “Resource-based framework” looks internally – it uses the VRIO model of Valuable, Rare, Inimitable, and Organizationally usable resources to identify competitive advantage that arises from characteristics internal to the firm. Pretty intuitive stuff!
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