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The Market Share Impact Of The Fit Between Market Leadership Efforts And Overall Strategic Aggressiveness, Larry P. Pleshko, Richard A. Heiens
The Market Share Impact Of The Fit Between Market Leadership Efforts And Overall Strategic Aggressiveness, Larry P. Pleshko, Richard A. Heiens
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The current study takes a contingency theory approach to the relationship between market leadership and a variety of marketing strategy concepts making up a firm’s strategic profile, including a firm’s Miles and Snow strategy type, market growth, service growth, service focus, market coverage, the Porter strategy group, and market orientation. The results of the study support this approach, showing that at least six of the seven strategic contingency combinations exhibit a significant relationship to market share. Utilizing a sample drawn from the financial services industry, it is found that firms possessing a recommended “fit”, as when market leader firms exhibit …