"Value activities are the discrete building blocks of competitive advantage," wrote Porter.

“价值活动是构成竞争优势的“分立部件”，”波特写道。

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Such tendencies were confirmed, and even advocated, by the most famous business writer of the 20th Century, Michael Porter, who wrote that the very object of business strategy is to avoid competition.

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