Retail strategies on the web: Price and non-price competition in the online book industry

Journal of Industrial Economics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 351-367

  Clay, Karen ^a   Krishnan, Ramayya ^a   Wolff, Eric ^a   Fernandes, Danny ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0035982962     PISSN: 00221821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6451.00181     Document Type: Article

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