Optimal pricing policies of web-enabled application services

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 259-272

  Cheng, Hsing Kenneth ^a   Koehler, Gary J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Application service providers (ASPs); Economics of electronic commerce; Pricing policy; Web hosting

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

APPLICATION SERVICE PROVIDERS (ASP);

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0037408998     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(02)00073-8     Document Type: Article

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