Information Technology A Source of Friction? An Analytical model of How Firms Combat Price Competition Online

EC 2000 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 135-144

  Farag, Neveen I ^a   Van Alstyne, Marshall W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; COMPETITION; COSTS; DISPERSIONS;

ANALYTIC MODELING; COMPARISON SHOPPING; CONSUMER PRICES; CUSTOMISATION; CUSTOMIZATION STRATEGIES; GENERALISATION; OFFLINE; PRICE COMPETITION; PRICE DISPERSION; RAISING PRICES;

PROFITABILITY;

EID: 0242467044     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/352871.352886     Document Type: Conference Paper

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