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Perhaps the most confounding characteristic of the competitive marketplace is that everyone wants a piece of the action. If a firm successfully enters a new market, creates a new product, or designs new innovations for an existing product, it's just a matter of time before competitors follow suit. And the influx of competition inevitably places downward pressure on both price and profitability. Whether you're an economics student or a manager with absolutely no background in economics, this book will help you make better decisions and learn more about the Five Forces Model, (first published in 1979 by Harvard economist Michael Porter) which identifies the characteristics that can help insulate a firm from competitive forces. This book brings microeconomic theory into the world of the business manager rather than the other way around. The author expounds on microeconomic theory, enabling economists to take the knowledge back to the office and apply it.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-144) and index.
Part I. If you could choose any price, what would it be? Fundamentals for the single price firm -- 1. Economics and the business manager -- 2. Consumer behavior: the law of demand and its effect on pricing -- 3. Understanding the price sensitivity of buyers -- 4. One perfect price: profit maximization for the single price firm -- Part II. Different strokes for different folks: charging more than one price for the same good -- 5. If you could read my mind: first-degree price discrimination strategies -- 6. Allowing buyers to self-select by willingness to pay: second-degree price discrimination strategies -- 7. Segmenting your market based on willingness to pay: third-degree price discrimination strategies -- Part III. How does my e-tailer know that I read comic books and cook with a wok? Pricing in the digital age -- 8. Dynamic pricing and e-commerce -- 9. Legal and ethical issues -- Table of strategies -- Appendix. Relevant published case studies -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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The practice of setting a single price that all buyers pay is slowly becoming a thing of the past. Today's marketplace requires firms to develop innovative pricing strategies to remain competitive. Is it better to bundle goods or price them separately? What type of online auction will generate the most revenue? The purpose of this book is to use microeconomic theory to determine which pricing strategies will succeed, and under what conditions.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.