The market share‐profitability relationship: An empirical assessment of major assertions and contradictions

Industrial Market Structure and Economic Performance.

1971 • 6,615 citations

The Decomposition of Effects in Path Analysis

1975 • 1,407 citations

Product Quality, Cost Position and Business Performance: A Test of Some Key Hypotheses

1983 • 849 citations

TOWARD A NEW CONTINGENCY APPROACH: THE SEARCH FOR ORGANIZATIONAL GESTALTS

1981 • 468 citations

The Elements of Market Structure

1972 • 464 citations

Spurious Correlation: A Causal Interpretation*

1954 • 408 citations

Tests of Equality Between Sets of Coefficients in Two Linear Regressions: An Expository Note

1970 • 390 citations

Market share: Key to profitability?

1981 • 388 citations

Henderson on Corporate Strategy

1979 • 356 citations

An Empirical Typology of Mature Industrial-Product Environments

1983 • 323 citations

Market Share and Rate of Return

1972 • 289 citations

Correlation and Causation

1990 • 284 citations

Heterogeneity Within an Industry: Firm Conduct in the U.S. Brewing Industry, 1952-71

1977 • 270 citations

Strategic Attributes and Performance in the BCG Matrix—A PIMS-Based Analysis of Industrial Product Businesses

1982 • 269 citations

Strategy and the “business portfolio”

1977 • 265 citations

Causal Models in the Social Sciences.

1972 • 254 citations

Strategic Attributes and Performance in the BCG Matrix--A PIMS-Based Analysis of Industrial Product Businesses.

1982 • 239 citations

An Empirical Typology of Mature Industrial-Product Environments.

1983 • 233 citations

Market Structure, Oligopoly, and Stability of Market Shares

1978 • 233 citations

Strategies for Declining Businesses

1980 • 228 citations

A Simultaneous Equation Model of Corporate Strategy

1978 • 210 citations

Strategy and the “Business Portfolio”

1990 • 193 citations

The impact of strategic planning on profit performance

1974 • 182 citations

Concentration versus Market Share: Which Determines Performance and Why Does it Matter?

1982 • 175 citations

PIMS: A Reexamination

1978 • 165 citations

Strategies of effective low share businesses

1981 • 163 citations

Spurious Correlation: A Causal Interpretation

1954 • 152 citations

Causes of Interfirm Profitability Differences: A New Interpretation of the Evidence

1974 • 141 citations

In Search of the Market Share Effect.

1981 • 129 citations

The logic of strategic planning

1982 • 115 citations

Firm Effects and Industry Effects in the Analysis of Market Structure and Profitability

1978 • 103 citations

An Inventory and Critique of Strategy Research Using the PIMS Database

1984 • 100 citations

The logic of strategic planning

1983 • 84 citations

THE APPLICATION AND MISAPPLICATION OF THE EXPERIENCE CURVE

1984 • 78 citations

Firm Effects and Industry Effects in the Analysis of Market Structure and Profitability

1978 • 53 citations

Interfirm Profitability Differences: Comment

1977 • 52 citations

PIMS: A Reexamination

1978 • 33 citations

An Inventory and Critique of Strategy Research Using the PIMS Database

1984 • 28 citations

Market Share Leadership--Does It Always Pay Off?

1981 • 16 citations

Interfirm Profitability Differences: Reply

1977 • 7 citations

Stochastic Determinants or Interfirm Profitability Differences

1979 • 6 citations