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Competitive and adaptive strategies: Miles and Snow, Abell, Porter

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# What are Miles and Snow's four adaptive strategies?

# What are Abell's three competitive strategies?

# What role does competitive scope play in Porter's approach to competitive strategies?

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The expert examines competitive and adaptive strategies for Miles and Snow's four adaptive strategies. Abell's three competitive strategies are given.

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Competitive and adaptive strategies

# What are Miles and Snow's four adaptive strategies?

The four adaptive strategies are:

Prospectors
They are the pioneers and constantly looking after the opportunities in the environment for creating new products and services

Defenders
They are conservative and compete on price.

Analyzer
They are mix of defender and prospector

Reactors
They take actions according to the changes in environment. ...

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