Customer heterogeneity and tariff biases in cloud computing

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Koehler, Philip ^a   Anandasivam, Arun ^a   Dan, Ma ^b   Weinhardt, Christof ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Conjoint analysis; Customer preferences; Tariff bias

Indexed keywords

CLOUD PROVIDERS; CLOUD SERVICES; CONJOINT ANALYSIS; CUSTOMER PREFERENCES; ECONOMIC ISSUES; FLAT RATE; PAY-PER-USE; PRICE DISCRIMINATION; PRICING MODELS; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; TARIFF BIAS;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COSTS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SURVEYS; WEB SERVICES;

SALES;

EID: 84870960183     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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