The 'Myth of Market Share': Can Focusing Too Much on the Competition Harm Profitability?

Business has long been likened to warfare, according to Wharton marketing professor Scott Armstrong, so it is hardly surprising that companies strive to beat their competitors and wrest away as much market share as possible. But such efforts not only waste time and energy, they can actually be detri...

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spelling sg-smu-ink.ksmu-13212018-07-09T04:03:10Z The 'Myth of Market Share': Can Focusing Too Much on the Competition Harm Profitability? Knowledge@SMU Business has long been likened to warfare, according to Wharton marketing professor Scott Armstrong, so it is hardly surprising that companies strive to beat their competitors and wrest away as much market share as possible. But such efforts not only waste time and energy, they can actually be detrimental to the firm's profitability, according to Armstrong. Based on new research and examples from today's business environment, Armstrong and co-author Kesten Green suggest that overemphasis on market share is the wrong approach. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2007-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/322 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1321&context=ksmu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Knowledge@SMU eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Business Marketing
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The 'Myth of Market Share': Can Focusing Too Much on the Competition Harm Profitability?
description Business has long been likened to warfare, according to Wharton marketing professor Scott Armstrong, so it is hardly surprising that companies strive to beat their competitors and wrest away as much market share as possible. But such efforts not only waste time and energy, they can actually be detrimental to the firm's profitability, according to Armstrong. Based on new research and examples from today's business environment, Armstrong and co-author Kesten Green suggest that overemphasis on market share is the wrong approach. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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title The 'Myth of Market Share': Can Focusing Too Much on the Competition Harm Profitability?
title_short The 'Myth of Market Share': Can Focusing Too Much on the Competition Harm Profitability?
title_full The 'Myth of Market Share': Can Focusing Too Much on the Competition Harm Profitability?
title_fullStr The 'Myth of Market Share': Can Focusing Too Much on the Competition Harm Profitability?
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