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id: strategic-management-theory
title: "Strategic Management: Frameworks and Practice"
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category: business
language: en
confidence: high
last_verified: "2026-05-28"
created_date: "2026-05-24"
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  - id: fact-biz-sm-001
    statement: "Porter's Five Forces framework analyzes industry competition through rivalry, threat of entrants, substitutes, supplier power, and buyer power."
    source_title: The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy
    source_url: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=34522
    confidence: high
  - id: fact-biz-sm-002
    statement: "Barney's 1991 resource-based view article links sustained competitive advantage to firm resources that are valuable, rare, imperfectly imitable, and not strategically substitutable."
    source_title: Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage
    source_url: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/014920639101700108
    confidence: high
  - id: fact-biz-sm-003
    statement: "Blue Ocean Strategy frames strategy as creating uncontested market space rather than competing only in crowded existing markets."
    source_title: Blue Ocean Strategy
    source_url: https://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/books/blue-ocean-strategy-book/
    confidence: medium
completeness: 0.82
known_gaps:
  - Agile strategy in fast-changing digital markets
  - Platform business model strategy
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primary_sources:
  - title: The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy
    type: academic_paper
    year: 2008
    url: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=34522
    institution: Harvard Business School
  - title: Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage
    type: academic_paper
    year: 1991
    url: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/014920639101700108
    doi: 10.1177/014920639101700108
    institution: Journal of Management
  - title: Blue Ocean Strategy
    type: book
    year: 2015
    url: https://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/books/blue-ocean-strategy-book/
    institution: Harvard Business Review Press
secondary_sources: []
updated: "2026-05-28"
---

## TL;DR

Strategic management studies how organizations choose positions, build advantages, and execute against competitive conditions.

## Core Explanation

Porter's Five Forces focuses on industry structure. The resource-based view focuses on resources and capabilities inside the firm. Blue Ocean Strategy focuses on creating new demand in less contested market space.

## Detailed Analysis

This entry now keeps its core strategy claims mapped to the specific framework sources above. Execution statistics, AI-strategy forecasts, and broad management claims should be added only with direct evidence.

## Further Reading

- [The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy](https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=34522)
- [Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/014920639101700108)
- [Blue Ocean Strategy](https://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/books/blue-ocean-strategy-book/)

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