A Market Share Theorem

Excerpt from A Market Share Theorem Marketing mode1 bui1ders frequent1y use re1ationships of the form them) to express the effects of us variab1es on purchase probabi1ity and market share. For examp1e, H1avac and Litt1e [1] hypothesize that the probabi1ity a car buyer wi11 purchase his car at a given dea1er is the ratio of the dea1er's attractiveness (which depends on various dea1er characteristics) to the sum of the same quantities over a11 dea1ers. Urban in his new product mode1 sprinter, makes the sa1es rate of a brand in a store depend on the ratio of a function of certain brand variab1es to the sum of such functions across brands. Kuehn and Weiss [3] make use of them) formu1ations in a marketing game mode1, as does Kot1er [4] in a market simu1ation. Mi11s [5] and Friedman [6] emp1oy mode1s of this form in game-theoretic ana1yses of competition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Foreword In April1971, Los Angeles and its satellite cities were treated to one of its least interesting and least publicized elections in years. Nothing seemed to be hotly contested. A few Los Angeles city councilmen were up for reelection as were some members of the Board of Ed ucation and the Board of Trustees of the Community Colleges. - Nakanishi, Cooper and Kassarjian [1974] Our colleague, Professor Harold H. Kassarjian, ran for one of the seats on the Board of Trustees and received 17,286 votes. While he lost the election, he had collected the data which he felt characterized voting in such /ow-invo/vement cases. He asked us to join him in writing a follow-up to a study of a similar election which had been published the previous faU in Public Opinion Quarter/y. Neither of us was content with the methods and models used in the prior study. Shares are different than other criteria, be they vote shares, market shares or retail stores' shares of customers. Different methods are needed to reflect their special nature. And thus began a research collaboration, running 17 years, so far. Though our combined research efforts have covered diverse areas of consumer choice behavior, in recent years we carne to the realization that our models and analytical methods might be very profitably employed in the analysis of market-share figures for consumer products.

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