It is rare for any type of rivalry to operate entirely alone…

Examining the three main types of rivarly:

• Type-1 rivalry to capture new potential customers could feasibly happen if the product or service is entirely new, and if any customer, once committed, would find it hard to switch. The market for enterprise-resource-planning systems (ERP) comes close to this ideal – once a substantial business has committed to using SAP it would be complex and costly to throw that out and use something else.
• Type-2 could only ...