Dynamic pricing in the presence of reference price effect and consumer strategic behaviour

Chen, Kehong; Zha, Yong; Alwan, Layth C.; Zhang, Lu

doi:10.1080/00207543.2019.1598592

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“…(1) A dynamic pricing model for a one-echelon supply chain with a monopoly (monopolist) firm [13][14][15][38][39][40][41][42] or oligopolistic competition firms [43][44][45] in the presence of strategic consumers, and (2) a dynamic pricing model for a decentralized supply chain in the presence of strategic consumers [16,17]. The presence of strategic consumers is detrimental to the retailer [38] and the seller would lose profits without paying attention to the presence of strategic consumers [14,15,39,43].…”

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“…In addition, a low-quality firm suffers substantially more than a high-quality firm when customers become more strategic under competition [44]. When strategic consumers extend to a decentralized supply chain [16,17], the profit of a centralized structure with one seller may not always gain more than a decentralized structure with a two-echelon supply chain in the presence of strategic consumers because of the reference price effect [17] or quantity commitment and price commitment [16]. However in a study of them, the value reduction and volume reduction of the products are not taken into account.…”

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“…The structure of the problem is described in Figure 2. The total market size is normalized to 1 [17,55]. Strategic consumers make purchases between the two periods of the sales horizon to maximize their expected utilities.…”

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“…Strategic consumers make purchases between the two periods of the sales horizon to maximize their expected utilities. It is assumed that fresh agricultural products are completely available to all buying customers [17]. So for a strategic consumer, the utility of buying an item in the second period is discounted by a homogeneous discount factor δ, which can be interpreted as the level of strategic behavior [16,17,43].…”

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“…Most model studies about pricing in the presence of strategic consumers are one-echelon supply chain with one monopoly firm or oligopolistic competition firm. There are few models that study a decentralized supply chain in the presence of strategic consumers [16,17]. Even in the study of them, the value reduction and volume reduction of the products are not taken into account.…”

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This study explores the influence of external reference price and store brand awareness on consumers' internal reference price, transaction utility, purchase intention, and search intention in mobile commerce. A 3 × 2 two‐factor experimental design for both utilitarian and hedonic products was adopted to collect the sample data. A total of 189 valid responses were analyzed using a MANOVA approach. The results indicate that for the utilitarian product context, external reference price affects consumers' internal reference price, transaction utility, and purchase intention but does not affect search intention and that store brand awareness affects consumers' internal reference price, transaction utility, purchase intention, and search intention. Further, store brand awareness has a moderating effect on the relationship between external reference price and internal reference price. For the hedonic product context, external reference price affects consumers' internal reference price and transaction utility but does not affect purchase intention or search intention, while store brand awareness affects consumers' internal reference price, transaction utility, purchase intention, and search intention. Also, store brand awareness has a moderating effect on the relationship between external reference price and search intention. These findings provide several important theoretical and practical implications for mobile commerce pricing decisions.

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