Our
paper describes how competitive action repertoire concept and the external
regulatory environment influence the performance of a firm in the regulated
telecommunications sector. Based
on panel data of 103 firms across Europe that provide fixed broadband Internet
to end customers during the time period of 3 years, results indicate that
aggressiveness and the complexity of an offer have a positive relationship with
market share growth. Contrary to widespread views, we find that the most
aggressive firms in the market in fact lose market share on a year-on-year
basis. Our results suggest that complexity and aggressiveness have a positive
relationship with changes in market share gains and that the effects hold for
non-regulated firms, but not for regulated ones.
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