book
Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
Porter, Michael E. Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance. New York: Free Press, 1985.
Why this matters here
Michael Porter's Competitive Advantage analyzes value chains—specialized activities coordinated across firms so products exist that no single participant fully sees. Trust Beyond Similarity uses that distributed dependence as practical trust among people who answer to different pressures: the object requires structured reliance on difference, not sentimental similarity.
