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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3043330
Do Businesses Get Stuck In The Middle? The Peril Of Intermediate Market Share
Can Uslay, Ekaterina V. Karniouchina, Ayca Altintig, M. Reeves
Published 2017 · Economics
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Email The quest for stylized facts regarding market share and natural market structures is not new, however extant research has predominantly concentrated on share rank and distribution. Using a sample of 220K firm-year observations representative of the US economy over four decades, this study reexamines the relationship between market share and profitability. The results indicate that being ‘stuck in the middle’ is a prevalent and empirically generalizable phenomenon that persists decade after decade even as average industry profitability decreases. Businesses with roughly 3%-11% intermediate market share appear to be stuck in the middle between specialists and generalists and find themselves at significant financial performance disadvantages across industry groups. The relationship consistently follows a non-linear pattern which must be taken into account during research design and sampling.
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