Title
Pricing for sales and per-use rental services with vertical differentiation.
Abstract
•Analyze the pricing problem for sales and per-use rental services.•Study the existence and uniqueness of optimal prices for both business models.•Vertical differentiation plays an important role in business model choice.•Vertical differentiation is profitable when operating two business models.•High (low) quality products may be offered to consumers with low (high) valuation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.ejor.2018.03.035
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
OR in marketing,Pricing,Per-use rental services,Vertical differentiation,Ownership
Decision variables,Vertical differentiation,Pooling,Popularity,Profitability index,Business model,Industrial organization,Product (category theory),Operations management,Mathematics,Renting
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
270
2
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.42
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yugang Yu114325.29
Yuxuan Dong220.42
Xiaolong Guo361.13