Should we expect less price rigidity in the digital economy?

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2004, Pages 2771-2780

  Kauffman, Robert J ^a   Lee, Dongwon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ECONOMY; ELECTRONIC SELF PRICING (ESP) SYSTEMS; PRICE COMPARISON AGENTS; PRICE RIGIDITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MARKETING; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SALES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 12344332383     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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