Many marketing models use variants of the relationship: Market share equals marketing effort divided by total marketing effort. Replacing marketing effort with its resulting “attraction,” the relationship is derived from the assumptions: (1) attraction is nonnegative, (2) equal attractions imply equal shares, and (3) a seller's share is affected the same if the attraction of any other seller increases a fixed amount.
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