Drawing on research in marketing strategy and industrial organization economics, the authors develop a model to describe the impact of strategies for introducing a new brand, aspects of the competitive environment, and firm characteristics on the performance of new brands. They test the model for 68 new brands in the pharmaceutical industry using a nested error component model. The results indicate which factors affect brand introduction strategies in marketing.
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