MERICAN Journal of Public Diplomacy and International Studies www.
grnjournal.us The need to revise the main approaches to ensure the competitiveness of trade services
enterprises in our country is mainly due to the unprecedented high share of foreign enterprises in the
domestic services market.
Today, human interests are above all else. Trade has important social and economic
importance in each region and country as a whole. So, trade is a type of business activity that is
closely related to buying and selling goods and providing services to customers.
Retail service is the result of direct interaction between the seller and the buyer, and is a private
activity of the seller to satisfy the demand of the buyer in the acquisition of goods for use, which is
not related to the business activity under the sales contract.
Materials and methods. The American scientist Porter developed the concept of competitive
strategy in 1975-1980 during the period of declining growth in most sectors of the economy. The
focus of the enterprise is not only customer satisfaction, but also competitive forces in the market.
Porter's five driving forces of competition are given in the diagram below.
Figure 1. Competitive forces. According to Michael Porter's theory, the development of the industry and the achievement
of economic competitive advantage at the world level are related to the production of innovations and
require the innovation of technologies in the industry. In this regard, the use of these technologies
requires us to see the direction of their management in terms of clusters. In this case, as a result of
making radical innovative changes to the technology of product production and by managing these
technologies, it creates an opportunity to achieve a high level of development in the industry.
Also, M. Porter distinguished the types of competitive forces and strategies, taking into
account companies that produce products similar in terms of characteristics and functional goals, that
is, substitute goods, and determined that the level of competition in the industry depends on five
competitive forces:
- internal struggle of competitors in the market;
- risk of new competitors;
- risk of emergence of substitute goods;
- bargaining power of buyers;
- bargaining power of suppliers.
The analysis of Porter's five competitive forces model makes it possible to identify the
strengths and weaknesses of the enterprise, to determine the areas where strategic changes will give