Competitive equilibrium in e-commerce: Pricing and outsourcing

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3541-3559

  Dube, Parijat ^a   Liu, Zhen ^a   Wynter, Laura ^a   Xia, Cathy ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

e Commerce; Non cooperative Nash equilibrium; Outsourcing; Pricing; QoS

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; COSTS; DYNAMIC MODELS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MARKETING; PROFITABILITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

COMPETITIVE EQUILIBRIUM; COST STRUCTURES; HARSH COMPETITION; NON-COOPERATIVE NASH EQUILIBRIUM;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 34247468353     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2006.01.019     Document Type: Article

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