Pricing as a driver of profitable growth: An agenda for CEOs and senior executives

Stephan Liozu and Andreas Hinterhuber

Business Horizons, 2022, vol. 65, issue 4, 457-467

Abstract: Most CEOs take a narrow, tactical view of pricing and delegate pricing to lower levels of the organization. This myopic approach is costly, as it prevents companies from realizing their potential. In the hands of the best-run companies, pricing is not a battlefield tactic to win a particular competitive skirmish but a transformative long-term strategy for sustained competitive advantage. We present an agenda of six specific action items that defines how to unlock the power of pricing. CEOs and senior executives, our research suggests, should not set prices, but instead, they should create the context, the capabilities, the behaviors, the infrastructure, and the aspirations that enable their organization to excel in pricing.

Keywords: Pricing; Chief executive officer; Competitive advantage; Pricing excellence; Organizational capabilities; Pricing myopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2021.06.002

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