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CRITICALLY ANALYSE PORTER 'S DIAMOND THEORY.APPLY IT TO EXPLAIN THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS OF AN INDUSTRY OF YOUR HOME COUNTRY.

Overview of Porter’s theoretical perspective
The theory of Porter is a study which works as a tradition that is related to the neo-classical economics with the nature of self adjusting nature of markets. The theory of Porter places innovation and industrialisation of geographic which is one of the number of theories for competitive advantages which aims at the process and development (O’Connell et al., 1997). The industries which work within the nations are focused by the Porter’s theory. Competitive advantage is given by the home nation with certain characteristics and concentration of geographic and this process is enhanced by the rivalries. The systemic character of the Porter’s Diamond Model is shown in Figure 1 which outlines the components of it. Although, determinant of diamond theory interact each other but the systemic natures variable in diamond theory. The arguments on two elements are raised by the Porter which are – concentration of industry geographic and the domestic rivalry and these two elements has simply a great power to make a system by changing this diamond. It promotes the entire national diamond upgrading because of this domestic rivalry. The Porter theory translates it into system because of its magnifying principle of the interactions in the geographic concentration. The final stage of the Diamond Porter’s Model is the linkage between the industries and it promotes clustering to the systemic nature (Clancy et.al., 1999).

Figure 1: Porter’s Diamond Theory
Competitive Advantage, Marketing and Porter:
Any firm which achieve success is known as Competitive advantage which is not a domain of any of the single academic discipline in it. Thus through a review which reveals that marketing plays a central role in building up a competitive advantage. A number of popular approaches include: strong market



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