Perceived price fairness of dynamic pricing

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 531-550

  Lee, Simon ^a   Illia, Abdou ^a   Lawson Body, Assion ^b  

^a EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumers; Internet shopping; Pricing

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS; CONSUMERS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DYNAMIC PRICING; EFFECTIVE DYNAMICS; ELECTRONIC MARKET; HUMAN DECISIONS; INTERNET SHOPPING; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NOMOLOGICAL NETWORKS; ONLINE AUCTIONS; PRICE DETERMINATION; PRICE FAIRNESS; PRICING; PRICING STRATEGY;

DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTERNET;

COSTS;

EID: 79955685725     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635571111133533     Document Type: Article

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