Product development and pricing strategy for information goods under heterogeneous outside opportunities

Information Systems Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 150-172

  Chen, Ying Ju ^a   Seshadri, Sridhar ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous outside opportunities; Information goods; Price discrimination; Quality degradation; Versioning

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; SALES;

HETEROGENEOUS OUTSIDE OPPORTUNITIES; INFORMATION GOODS; PRICE DISCRIMINATION; QUALITY DEGRADATION; VERSIONING;

COSTS;

EID: 61349175315     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1070.0119     Document Type: Article

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