Pricing Services Subject to Congestion: Charge Per-Use Fees or Sell Subscriptions?
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Pricing Services Subject to Congestion: Charge Per-Use Fees or Sell Subscriptions?
Should a rm charge on a per-use basis or sell subscriptions when its service experiences congestion? Queueing-based models of pricing primarily focus on charging a fee per use of the service, in part because per-use pricing enables the rm to regulate congestion raising the per-use price naturally reduces how frequently customers use a service. The rm has less control over usage with subscrip...
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عنوان ژورنال: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1523-4614,1526-5498
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1100.0315