Costly bidding in online markets for IT services

Management Science

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1504-1520

  Snir, Eli M ^a   Hitt, Lorin M ^b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bidding; Electronic; Internet; Markets; Reverse auctions; Software contracts

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BIDDING; ELECTRONIC MARKETS; ONLINE MARKETS; ONLINE SERVICE MARKETS; REVERSE AUCTIONS; SOFTWARE CONTRACTS;

INTERNET;

EID: 0242537724     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.49.11.1504.20587     Document Type: Article

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