Pricing and product design: Intermediary strategies in an electronic market

International Journal of Electronic Commerce

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-56

  Bhargava, Hemant K ^d   Choudhary, Vidyanand ^a   Krishnan, Ramayya ^b,c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Electronic markets; Intermediation; Network effect; Price discrimination; Pricing of software services; Vertical differentiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003179511     PISSN: 10864415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10864415.2000.11044193     Document Type: Article

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