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Market consolidation, market growth, or new market development? Owner, firm, and competitive determinants

Market consolidation, market growth, or new market development? Owner, firm, and competitive determinants
Market consolidation, market growth, or new market development? Owner, firm, and competitive determinants
Market entry decisions are complex and involve high sunk costs with uncertain or risky outcomes. In this study we explore how owner, firm, and competitive pressures shape this decision. Using a large UK data set of SMEs, we find that the preferred form of growth, and growth is not always desired, is expansion in existing markets. Key determinants of the decision to pursue a new market entry strategy are formal education, and large firm based market competition. Further, these decisions are made simultaneously not sequentially.
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market consolidation, market growth, SMEs, market development
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Cowling, Marc
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Liu, Weixi
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Yue, Wei
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Cowling, Marc
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Liu, Weixi
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Yue, Wei
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Do, Hang
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Cowling, Marc, Liu, Weixi, Yue, Wei and Do, Hang (2019) Market consolidation, market growth, or new market development? Owner, firm, and competitive determinants. International Review of Entrepreneurship, 17 (1), 17-36, [1596].

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Market entry decisions are complex and involve high sunk costs with uncertain or risky outcomes. In this study we explore how owner, firm, and competitive pressures shape this decision. Using a large UK data set of SMEs, we find that the preferred form of growth, and growth is not always desired, is expansion in existing markets. Key determinants of the decision to pursue a new market entry strategy are formal education, and large firm based market competition. Further, these decisions are made simultaneously not sequentially.
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Published date: 2019
Keywords: market consolidation, market growth, SMEs, market development

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Local EPrints ID: 437459
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/437459
PURE UUID: d3c745c3-2156-4868-b7e8-ea147c401f9e
ORCID for Hang Do: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8560-8119

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Date deposited: 31 Jan 2020 17:30
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 02:07

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Author: Marc Cowling
Author: Weixi Liu
Author: Wei Yue
Author: Hang Do ORCID iD

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