Assymetric competition refers to forms of business competition where they are considered competitors in some markets or contexts but not in others. [1] In such cases, they can choose to allocate competitive resources and marketing actions among their competitors out of proportion to their market share . [2] [3] [4] [5] Asymmetric competition can be visualized using such techniques as multidimensional scaling and perceptual mapping .
Forms of assymetric competition
- Firm A may compete with B in some markets but not others.
- Firm A competes with B over certain attributes (such as reliability and design ) but not over others (price).
- Firm A considers B a competitor B does not consider A to be a competitor.
- Firm does not consider to be a competitor, however, consumers see its products as competing with its products.
See also
- Competition
- coopetition
- Product differentiation
- Non-price competition
- Asymmetry Information
- Multimarket contact
- Size-asymmetric competition
References
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