Pricing of software as a service - An empirical study in view of the economics of information theory

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 114 LNBIP, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-14

  Lehmann, Sonja ^a   Draisbach, Tobias ^a   Buxmann, Peter ^a   Dörsam, Petra ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

economics of information theory; price metric; pricing; screening; signaling; Software as a Service

Indexed keywords

COSTS; INFORMATION THEORY; SCREENING; SIGNALING; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

BUSINESS SOFTWARE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; NEW FORMS; PRICE METRIC; PRICING MODELS; SAAS SOLUTIONS; SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE; SOFTWARE VENDORS;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84864191340     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30746-1_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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