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Managerial identification of competitors: Representations, criteria and differences among managers

Sophie Changeur

Abstract

Although there is a lot of research on competitive analysis based on consumer data, little is known about how managers identify a product/brand as a competitor and on the criteria they use. Moreover, several questions can be asked as to the fact that different managers placed in similar market situations will or not define competition in the same way and on the basis of similar criteria. Our qualitative study shows that managers identify few competitors, mostly direct, and use especially product descriptors and impact descriptors rather than customer descriptors. Furthermore, managers tend to use few but very different criteria with the greatest differences observed between sales and marketing managers.
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hal-01477911 , version 1 (27-02-2017)

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Sophie Changeur, Fons Cendrine. Managerial identification of competitors: Representations, criteria and differences among managers. Proceedings of the 36th EMAC Conference, May 2007, Reykjavik Iceland. ⟨hal-01477911⟩

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