Pricing strategy for cloud computing: A damaged services perspective

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 78, Issue , 2015, Pages 80-92

  Huang, Jianhui ^a   Kauffman, Robert J ^b   Ma, Dan ^b  

^a Corporate Executive Board ^*  (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Damaged services; Pricing strategy; Services interruption; Spot prices

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ECONOMICS; POWER MARKETS;

CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES; DAMAGED SERVICES; DECISION SUPPORT MODELS; ELECTRICITY PRICING; ON-DEMAND SERVICES; PRICING STRATEGY; SERVICES INTERRUPTION; SPOT PRICE;

COSTS;

EID: 84944146833     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2014.11.001     Document Type: Article

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