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Opaque Distribution Channels for Competing Service Providers: Posted Price vs. Name-Your-Own-Price Mechanisms

2014

Opaque selling has been widely adopted by service providers in the travel industry to sell off leftover capacity under stochastic demand. We consider a two-stage model to study the impact of different selling mechanisms, posted price (PP) versus name-your-own-price (NYOP), of an opaque reseller on competing service providers who face forward-looking customers. We find that in this environment, providers prefer that the opaque reseller uses a posted price instead of a bidding model. This is because the ability to set retail prices is critical for extracting surplus from customers who wait to purchase from the reseller. Such surplus extraction enables providers to set high prices for advance…

Prêt-à-porter, prêt-à-prescrire : quand Balzac Paris et Sézane sont tentées par la prescription culturelle

2019

International audience

Qualification requirements of SMEs in Internet-based electronic commerce : findings from Finland

2010

Danno da prodotto difettoso e responsabilità delle piattaforme di E-Commerce: uno sguardo oltreoceano

2022

L’articolo prende in esame due recenti decisioni della Court of Appeal della California circa la responsabilità delle piattaforme di e-commerce per prodotti difettosi alienati da venditori circa la responsabilità delle piattaforme di e-commerce per prodotti difettosi alienati da venditori terzi. Dopo aver ricostruito il case law californiano in materia di danno da prodotto ed il ruolo della tradizionale filiera distributiva nel migliorare la sicurezza dei prodotti, l’Autore passa all’esame delle pronunce della Court of Appeal rese nei casi Bolger v. Amazon.com del 2020 e Loomis v. Amazon.com del 2021. Secondo la Corte di secondo grado, le piattaforme di e-commerce sono destinatarie del regi…

What Prevents Consumers from Making Responsible Online Purchases?

2023

The objective of this qualitative study is to examine and describe what prevents consumers from making responsible online purchases. The data were collected during February and March 2023 with an online survey. The data comprises the respondents' (N=245) free-form written responses, in which they articulated and explained the factors that prevent their responsible online purchases. The findings indicate that external and internal factors can prevent consumers' responsible online purchases. While external factors – online stores – are mainly blamed for promoting irresponsible buying behavior, internal factors –consumers' individual characteristics – are also recognized to have an important r…

La stratégie de la distribution : des interrogations managériales aux contributions académiques.

2004

Le secteur du commerce de détail connaît une remise en cause d'un certain nombre de modèles stratégiques dominants qui ont accompagné les transformations de ce secteur depuis une cinquantaine d'années. Les professionnels du secteur sont ainsi confrontés à la recherche de nouveaux cadres normatifs susceptibles d'orienter leur prise de décision. Cet article analyse les contributions possibles des recherches académiques à trois champs stratégiques majeurs du distributeur : le cadre stratégique du détaillant, l'optimisation du canal de distribution et le positionnement de l'offre du point de vente.

Exploring positive online customer experience formation : a study of food waste shoppers

2022

This qualitative study investigates the formation of positive online customer experiences in the context of online grocery shopping. This study analyzes customers’ written descriptions of the causes of their positive experiences when visiting an online store. Data were collected with an online survey of 581 respondents. The case company is a Finnish online retailer, Fiksuruoka Ltd. Fiksuruoka’s business idea is to sell food waste; its product range consists of surplus groceries that are in danger of being disposed of. The findings show that four main themes contribute positively to the online customer experience. Positive customer experiences were explained by factors related to 1) the shop…

Regulating (and Self-regulating) the Sharing Economy in Europe: An Overview

2018

The article describes the main legal challenges for regulating the sharing (or collaborative) economy in Europe and explains how the existing body of EU law applies to these new business models. In the last part, it makes a few brief comments on the need for future regulation.

Digital Influencers, Food and Tourism—A New Model of Open Innovation for Businesses in the Ho.Re.Ca. Sector

2022

The choice of influencer marketing as an endorser for promoting products and services is becoming a more and more effective communication strategy of open innovation. Their use of social media platforms, such as Instagram, allows them to be reached by millions of followers all over the world. As a response to the economic crisis that affected Italy after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chiara Ferragni, one of the most endorsed influencers worldwide, started a communication campaign with the aim to promote Italian food and tourist destinations (cities of art, seaside, ski and countryside locations, thermal baths, museums, galleries, hotels, etc.). This study analyses Chiara Ferragni…

"Un revirement de jurisprudence contestable : la constitution du tribunal arbitral interdit la saisine du juge des référés aux fins de mesures provis…

2006

International audience