Title : 
Group buying decisions of competing short-life-cycle products with emergency purchasing
         
        
            Author : 
Ma Xindi ; Dong Fenyi ; Liu Bin
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Coll. of Inf. & Manage. Sci., Henan Agric. Univ., Zhengzhou, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper takes the Short-Life-Cycle products as the research object with emergency purchasing, and investigates decision models through incorporating the effect of pricing and Group Buying on demand, and analyzes Group Buying decisions of retailers in single and dual channel, respectively. It is shown that the retailer always prefers to launch Group Buying in single channel, and the same result also presents in dual channel for the retailers.
         
        
            Keywords : 
pricing; product life cycle management; purchasing; decision model; emergency purchasing; group buying decisions; pricing effect; short-life-cycle products; Advertising; Analytical models; Educational institutions; Investment; Joints; Pricing; Stochastic processes; Dual Channel; Emergency Purchasing; Group Buying; Joint Decision; Pricing Decision;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM), 2014 11th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Beijing
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4799-3133-0
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6943365