• DocumentCode
    2241182
  • Title

    Study on pricing level of C2C electronic commerce platform

  • Author

    Li-liang, Peng ; Jiang, Tian

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Manage. & Econ., UESTC, Chengdu, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    13-15 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    452
  • Lastpage
    455
  • Abstract
    In recent years, with the popularity of the Internet in China C2C shopping websites are booming. Although large-scale have accumulated the number of users, but still no one can achieve our profit C2C platform. As a new business model, electronic commerce has made a significant influence on people´s life. Firstly this paper divides the user´s utility into the utility associated with risk and the utility not related to risk. Because the particularity of the network environment, the user´s utility is affected by risk factors. Secondly we focus on the factors influencing on optimal pricing level of C2C electronic commerce network in three stages, which included network externalities, income, the level of credit and service cost. Finally we draw some conclusions which provide certain guiding significance for people.
  • Keywords
    Web sites; electronic commerce; pricing; retail data processing; risk analysis; C2C electronic commerce platform; China C2C shopping Websites; business model; credit level; income; network externalities; optimal pricing level; risk factors; service cost; Educational institutions; Electronic commerce; Industries; Pricing; Switches; C2C; externalities; pricing level; utility;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Management Science and Engineering (ICMSE), 2011 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Rome
  • ISSN
    2155-1847
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1885-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMSE.2011.6070001
  • Filename
    6070001