Market share, profits and business strategy

Management Decision

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 607-618

  Laverty, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Market share; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986144730     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000005860     Document Type: Article

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