Versioning Strategy of Information Goods with Network Externality in the Presence of Piracy

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shivendu Shivendu ◽  
Zhe Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Network Externality ◽  
Information Goods

scholarly journals Examining Protection Motivation and Network Externality Perspective Regarding the Continued Intention to Use M-Health Apps

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 5684
Author(s):  
Yumei Luo ◽  
Guiping Wang ◽  
Yuwei Li ◽  
Qiongwei Ye
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Network Externalities ◽  
Network Externality ◽  
Intention To Use ◽  
Protection Motivation ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Perceived Vulnerability ◽  
Response Efficacy ◽  
Health Apps ◽  
Direct Network

M-health apps have developed rapidly and are widely accepted, but users’ continued intention to use m-health apps has not been fully explored. This study was designed to obtain a better understanding of users’ continued intention to use m-health apps. We developed a theoretical model by incorporating the protection motivation theory and network externalities and conducted an empirical study of a 368-respondent sample. The results showed that: (1) perceived vulnerability has a direct impact on users’ self-efficacy and response efficacy; (2) self-efficacy and response efficacy have a direct impact on users’ attitudes and continued intention; (3) network externalities affect users’ attitudes and continued intention, among which direct network externalities have an indirect impact on users’ continued intention through attitude; and (4) the impacts of self-efficacy, response efficacy, and indirect network externalities on continued intention are partially meditated by attitudes.

Price and revenue bounds for bundles of information goods

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihai Banciu ◽  
Fredrik Ødegaard ◽  
Alia Stanciu
Keyword(s):  
Information Goods

Welfare-improving vertical separation with network externality

2017 ◽  
Vol 151 ◽  
pp. 115-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kangsik Choi ◽  
DongJoon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Network Externality ◽  
Vertical Separation

scholarly journals Monopoly Versioning of Information Goods When Consumers Have Group Tastes

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 1067-1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xueqi David Wei ◽  
Barrie R. Nault
Keyword(s):  
Information Goods

Product Selling vs. Pay-Per-Use Service: A Strategic Analysis of Competing Business Models

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Ladas ◽  
Stylianos Kavadias ◽  
Christoph Loch
Keyword(s):  
Operations Management ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Business Models ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Information Goods ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Additional Advantage ◽  
Delivery Costs ◽  
Relative Profitability

We present a model that suggests possible explanations for the observed proliferation of “pay-per-use” (PPU) business models over the last two decades. Delivering “fractions” of a product as a service offers a cost advantage to customers with lower usage but requires extra delivery costs. Previous research focused on information goods (with negligible production costs) and predicted that PPU, when arising as a differentiation to selling in equilibrium, would fundamentally achieve lower profits than selling. We extend the theory by covering goods with any production cost in duopolistic competition. We show that PPU business models can be more profitable than selling (especially at midrange production costs), as long as their delivery costs are not too high, a requirement that is more easily fulfilled as new technologies reduce these costs. Moreover, if firms are imperfectly informed about their customers’ usage profiles, PPU’s effective pricing of customers’ varying usage offers an additional advantage over selling. This requires companies to employ accounting methods that do not inappropriately allocate production costs over stochastic usage levels. If PPU service provision suffers from queueing inefficiencies, this does not fundamentally change the relative profitability of the PPU and selling models, provided that PPU providers can attract sufficiently high demand to benefit from pooling economies. This paper was accepted by Charles Corbett, operations management.

The Effect of Flow on Users’ Social Shopping Intention

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Network Externality ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Flow Experience ◽  
Social Commerce ◽  
Shopping Behaviour ◽  
Social Shopping

The application of mobile technologies such as 4G has triggered social commerce development. However, due to the perceived uncertainty and risk, users may obtain a poor experience when conducting social shopping. Integrating both perspectives of social support and network externality, this research examined users’ flow experience associated with social shopping. The results indicated that both emotional support and network externality affect flow, which in turn affects identification and social shopping intention. The results imply that companies need to create a supportive climate and utilize network externality to improve users’ experience and facilitate their shopping behaviour.

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