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Pricing Research: State of the Art and Future Opportunities

Aliomar Lino Mattos, José Carlos Tiomatsu Oyadomari and Fernando Nascimento Zatta

SAGE Open, 2021, vol. 11, issue 3, 21582440211032168

Abstract: The most commonly used pricing approaches adopted by companies worldwide are based on costs, customer value, and competition. The purpose of the present study is to review the current status of publications on pricing globally with the addition of Brazilian literature, identify the most cited authors and highest publishing institutions, and outline further research opportunities. To this end, we use the bibliometric method to analyze relevant publications from the following four databases: Web of Science, Emerald, Elsevier, and Spell. A total of 286 papers from 195 periodicals and 31 journals (primarily from marketing, accounting, economics, and production engineering) are reviewed. The findings show that pricing is a complex and multifaceted topic involving far more than merely establishing selling prices, and that pricing managers face substantial challenges. The results also reveal that the cost-based pricing approach is superior to the perceived customer-value-based and the competition-based approaches. Finally, the findings show that pricing remains an underresearched topic, and is thus a fertile ground for further investigation.

Keywords: pricing; pricing strategy; marketing; literature review; new products; customer value; value (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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