Best pricing strategy for information services

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 339-366

  Wu, Shin Yi ^a   Banker, Rajiv D ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flat fee pricing; Information services pricing; Pure usage based pricing; Two Part tariff

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SERVICES; MONITORING; SALES;

FLAT FEE PRICING; INFORMATION SERVICE PRICING; MARGINAL COSTS; MONITORING COSTS; OPTIMAL PRICING; PRICING SCHEME; PRICING STRATEGY; PURE USAGE-BASED PRICING; SERVICE PRICING; TWO-PART TARIFF;

PROFITABILITY;

EID: 77955115286     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00229     Document Type: Article

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