KMS Of Academy of mathematics and systems sciences, CAS
| Evolutionary location and pricing strategies for service merchants in competitive O2O markets | |
He, Zhou1,2; Cheng, T. C. E.2; Dong, Jichang1; Wang, Shouyang1,3
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| 2016-10-16 | |
| Source Publication | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
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| ISSN | 0377-2217 |
| Volume | 254Issue:2Pages:595-609 |
| Abstract | Attracting customers in the online-to-offline (O2O) business is increasingly difficult as more competitors are entering the O2O market. To create and maintain sustainable competitive advantage in crowded 020 markets requires optimizing the joint pricing-location decision and understanding customers' behaviours. To investigate the evolutionary location and pricing behaviors of service merchants, this paper proposes an agent-based competitive O2O model in which the service merchants are modeled as profit-maximizing agents and customers as utility-maximizing agents that are connected by social networks through which they can share their service experiences by word of mouth (WOM). It is observed that the service merchant should standardize its service management to offer a stable expectation to customers if their WOM can be ignored. On the other hand, when facing more socialized customers, firms with variable service quality should adopt aggressive pricing and location strategies. Although customers' social learning facilitates the diversity of services in O2O markets, their online herd behaviors would lead to unpredictable offline demand variations, which consequently pose performance risk to the service merchants. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| Keyword | Agent-based modeling Service competition Customer behavior Location Pricing |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ejor.2016.03.030 |
| Language | 英语 |
| Funding Project | Hong Kong Polytechnic University[G-UA39] |
| WOS Research Area | Business & Economics ; Operations Research & Management Science |
| WOS Subject | Management ; Operations Research & Management Science |
| WOS ID | WOS:000377732300019 |
| Publisher | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV |
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| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.amss.ac.cn/handle/2S8OKBNM/22896 |
| Collection | 系统科学研究所 |
| Corresponding Author | He, Zhou |
| Affiliation | 1.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Econ & Management, 80 Zhongguancun East Rd, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 2.Hong Kong Polytech Univ, Dept Logist & Maritime Studies, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Acad Math & Syst Sci, 55 Zhongguancun East Rd, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | He, Zhou,Cheng, T. C. E.,Dong, Jichang,et al. Evolutionary location and pricing strategies for service merchants in competitive O2O markets[J]. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH,2016,254(2):595-609. |
| APA | He, Zhou,Cheng, T. C. E.,Dong, Jichang,&Wang, Shouyang.(2016).Evolutionary location and pricing strategies for service merchants in competitive O2O markets.EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH,254(2),595-609. |
| MLA | He, Zhou,et al."Evolutionary location and pricing strategies for service merchants in competitive O2O markets".EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH 254.2(2016):595-609. |
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