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Book Review: No Contest: The Case against Competition

Many marketing people accept competition as a desirable and effective way to improve performance. Is there any scientific support for this viewpoint?Marketing managers often try to promote competition among their salespeople by offering incentives to the best performer. Marketing professors use competitive reward structures to motivate people to learn. Marketing planners develop strategies to defeat their competitors as a way to ensure their company's success.Advice to marketing people on how to fight the competitive struggle can be found in books with titles such as Battling for Profits: How to Win on the Marketing Battlefield (Hendon 1986). Even standard texts, such as Kotler's (1984) Marketing Management, devote considerable attention to marketing as a type of warfare (Chapter 12). However, I had not been aware of any empirical work that explicitly examined the value of competition in marketing. Kotler's Chapter 12 does not cite any empirical support.