Multimarket contact externalitiesthe effect of rival's multimarket contacts on focal firm performance

  1. "Gómez null, Jaime
  2. Orcos null, Raquel
  3. Palomas null, Sergio
Revista:
Documents de Treball ( Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia de l'Empresa )

ISSN: 1988-7736

Año de publicación: 2013

Número: 2

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

Given that firms develop their activities in a network of multiple players, interfirm rivalry is not only a matter of direct competitors, but also of indirect competition. In spite of this, the literature on competitive dynamics tends to focus on analyzing rivalry as an exclusive function of the competitive relationship between a focal firm and its direct rivals. In this article, we extend competitive dynamics literature by considering how focal firms are affected by the relationships of their rivals with third-party firms. Specifically, we study the effect that the multimarket contacts of rivals produces on the performance of the focal firm. Additionally, we incorporate the idea that there are different strategic options for operating in an industry that affect the intensity of multimarket contact externalities. Our results show that multimarket contact among firms causes externalities that indirectly affect firms that are not directly involved in this competitive relationship. We find that multimarket contact externalities differ between and within strategic groups.

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