Price competition in e-tailing under service and recognition differentiation

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 322-331

  Ba, Sulin ^a   Stallaert, Jan ^a   Zhang, Zhongju ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Brand recognition; E service; Price competition; Service quality

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SEARCH ENGINES; WEB SERVICES;

BRAND RECOGNITION; E-SERVICE; E-TAILER; PRICE COMPETITION;

COMPETITION;

EID: 34548655653     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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