Leaving the tier: An examination of asymmetry in pricing patterns in online high tech shops

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 155 LNBIP, Issue , 2013, Pages 63-73

  Wood, Charles A ^a   Ray, Souvrav ^b   Messinger, Paul ^c  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electronic Commerce; Electronic Markets; Online Competition; Online Pricing

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; PROFITABILITY;

ELECTRONIC MARKET; HIGH-TECH PRODUCTS; MARGINAL REVENUES; MARKET FRICTIONS; ONLINE COMPETITION; ONLINE PRICING; PRICE INCREASE; PRICING PATTERNS;

COSTS;

EID: 84881132915     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39808-7_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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