DEFENSE BY EXPANSION: THE CASE OF MARSHALL FIELDFootnote∗

∗Stanley D. Brunn, University of Kentucky, Bart J. Epstein, Kent State University, and Kenard E. Smith and Douglas V. Schmidt, Dayton Hudson Corporation, kindly commented on the text. BATUS made its Annual Reports available. Diana Mattsson-Werner drew the figures. The Gothenburg Business School Foundation financed the study.

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