 Manufacturer adoption of a unilateral pricing policy in a multi-channel setting to combat customer showroomingS.P. Raj, Byong-Duk Rhee and K. Sivakumar Journal of Business Research, 2020, vol. 110, issue C, 104-118 Abstract: Unilateral pricing policy (UPP), in which the manufacturer mandates a minimum retail price for all retailers, has become increasingly popular. Manufacturers employ this pricing policy to encourage brick-and-mortar retailers to offer a high level of service in their stores and to support brick-and-mortar retailers that provide presales services for customers in the presence of showrooming—a phenomenon in which a customer visits an offline retailer to learn about the product but purchases from an online retailer for a lower price. Our proposed analytical model identifies the motivations of a UPP and helps determine the approach to setting a UPP-based price under various conditions. The UPP price depends on key factors such as the extent of showrooming in the market, customer price sensitivity, and the salience of presales service in their valuation. We compare the outcomes of a UPP with those under the conventional policy, in which the retailers determine prices independently. Keywords: Pricing; Unilateral pricing policy; Showrooming; Offline presales service; Channel competition (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:110:y:2020:i:c:p:104-118 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.01.001 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Research is currently edited by A. G. Woodside More articles in Journal of Business Research from Elsevier |
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