Industry & Competitive Analysis
Description
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Identify the essential factors and sources of firm competitive advantage
- Analyse national competitiveness
- Examine critically the nature of industry and factors beyond
- Read and interpret industrial analysis in both domestic and international media.
Suggested Books
- Porter, Michael E., The Competitive Advantage of Nations, 6th ed., Macmillan Press, London & Basingstoke, 1990.
- Evans, Nicholas D., Business Agility: Strategies for Gaining Competitive Advantage through Mobile Business Solutions, Prentice Hall, Upper Sadddle River, 2002.
- Pearce II, John A. & Richard B. Robinson, Jr., Strategic Management: Formulation, Implementation, and Control, 8th ed., McGraw Hill, Boston, 2003.
- Kay, John, The Business of Economics, Oxford University Press, London, 1996.
- D”Aveni, Richard A., Hypercompetitive Rivalries: Competing in Highly Dynamic Environments, The free Press, New York, 1995.
- Koch, Richard, Guide to Strategy: How to Create and Deliver a Useful Strategy, 2nd ed., Prentrice-Hall, London, 2001.
- Kuncoro, Mudrajad, et al., Ekonomi Industri: Teori, Kebijakan, dan Studi Empiis di Indonesia, PT Widya Sarana Informatika, Yogyakarta, 1997.
- Kuncoro, Mudrajad, Analisis Spasial & Regional: Studi Aglomerasi dan Kluster Industri Indonesia, UPP AMP YKPN, Yogyakarta, 2002.
- Mintzberg, Henry, Bruce Ahlstrand, and Joseph Lampel, Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Strategic Management, The Free Press, New York, 1998.
- Hamel, G & C.K. Prahalad, Competing for the Future, harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1994.
- Collis, David J & Cynthia A. Montgomery, Corporate Strategy: a Resource-based Approach, Irwin & McHraw Hill, Boston, 1998.
Suggested Articles
- Krugman, Paul, “Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession”, Foreign Affairs, volume 73, number 2, March/April 1994.
- Kuncoro, Mudrajad, “Regional Clustering of Indonesia’s Manufacturing Industry: A Spatial Analysis With Geographic Information System (GIS)”, Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business, Vol. 3, no. 3, September, 2001.
- Kuncoro, Mudrajad, “Obsesi Daya Saing”, Gatra, 26 April 2003.
- Porter, M. E. (1998a). Clusters and the New Economics of Competition. Harvard Business Review, November-December(6), 77-91.
- Porter, M. E. (1998b). Competing Across Locations: Enhancing Competitive Advantage through a Global Strategy. In M. E. Porter (Ed.), On Competition (pp. 309-48). Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing.
- Reich, Robert B., “Who Do We Think They Are?” The American Prospect no. 4 (Winter 1991): 49-53 (http://epn.org/prospect/04/04reic.html).
- Tyson, Laura D’Andrea, “They Are Not Us: Why American Ownership Still Matters,” The American Prospect no. 4 (Winter 1991): 37-49 (http://epn.org/prospect/04/04tyso.html).
Suggested Websites
- Harvard Business Review, http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu; http://www.hbr.org
- Bloomberg Online: http://www.bloomberg.com
- Euromoney: http://www.emwl.com
- Far Eastern Economic Review: http://www.feer.com

