bus499 week 2 discussion 2

Five Forces of Competition Model" Please respond to the following:

From the e-Activity, analyze the industry you selected using the Five Forces of Competition Model to determine the impact of each of the five forces.

Based on your analysis, determine if the industry is attractive or unattractive. Explain your rationale

Class an industry's competitive intensity and profit potential can be determined by the relative strengths of five competitive forces. This model of industry competition recognizes that suppliers can influence industry profitability by raising prices or reducing the quality of goods sold if industry participants are unable to recover cost increases through pricing structures. Buyers can influence the profit potential of an industry if the buyer group is able to successfully bargain for higher quality, greater levels of service, and lower prices. Substitute products influence an industry's profit potential by placing an upper limit on prices that can be charged. New entrants to an industry influence industry profitability because they bring additional production capacity to the industry. Unless product demand is increasing, additional capacity holds down (or reduces) buyers' costs, reducing profitability for all firms in the industry. The intensity of rivalry among competitors reflects competitor actions and responses as firms initiate moves to improve their competitive position or when they act in retaliation for competitive pressures brought about by the strategic actions of rival firms. Generally, the greater the intensity of competitive rivalry, the lower the overall profitability of an industry.