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Abstract

Offensive and Defensive Marketing: Closed-Loop Duopoly Strategies
A modified Lanchester game is used to develop closed-loop strategies for offensive and defensive marketing expenditures of duopolistic competitors in a market share rivalry. Analysis of the model reveals that
  well-defined closed-loop strategies can be developed that show directly the influence of market share on offensive and defensive marketing;
  steady state is marked by balance between offensive and defensive marketing expenditures;
  defensive marketing is more critical than offensive marketing due to greater risk of loss under deviation from closed-loop strategies.
The last result would appear to have particularly important implications for both practice and research.

Key words  Offensive and Defensive Marketing - Lanchester Model - Closed-Loop Strategies

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