Choice of transaction channels: The effects of product characteristics on market evolution

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 173-197

  Ba, Sulin ^a,b   Stallaert, Jan ^a   Whinston, Andrew B ^a,b   Zhang, Han ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Electronic markets; Evolutionarily stable equilibrium; Evolutionary game theory; Market evolution; Product characteristics; Stochastically stable equilibrium; Transaction channel; Trusted third party

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GAME THEORY; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SECURITY OF DATA;

ELECTRONIC MARKETS; EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORY; MARKET EVOLUTION; PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS; STOCHASTICALLY STABLE EQUILIBRIUM; TRANSACTION CHANNEL; TRUSTED THIRD PARTY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 21044453774     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2005.11045822     Document Type: Article

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