Impact of recommender system on competition between personalizing and non-personalizing firms

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 243-277

  Ghoshal, Abhijeet ^a   Kumar, Subodha ^b   Mookerjee, Vijay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Duopoly; Dynamic optimization; Nash equilibrium; Online competition; Pricing; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COSTS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY; SALES;

DETERIORATION RATES; DUOPOLY; DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION; NASH EQUILIBRIA; ONLINE COMPETITION; PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION; QUALITY OF RECOMMENDATIONS; STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84957096685     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: 1557928X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2014.1001276     Document Type: Article

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