Journal
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
Volume 54, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2022.101169
Keywords
Pricing; Reward-basedcrowdfunding; Onlinereviews; Strategicconsumers; Fundinggoal
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71871050]
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Online reviews have a significant impact on entrepreneurs' pricing strategies and profit maximization, with the funding goal influencing the optimal pricing strategy, particularly in the presence of online reviews.
Entrepreneurs can adopt a two-stage sale to sell the product once the crowdfunding campaign succeeds. With Allor-Nothing mechanism, we investigate the effect of online reviews on strategic consumer behavior and the choice of pricing strategy by considering two cases-one without and the other with online reviews. Analytical results show that online reviews play a significant role in determining the pricing strategy and maximizing profits. In the absence of online reviews, regardless of the funding goal, the penetration and uniform pricing strategies always benefits entrepreneurs. However, in the presence of online reviews, the funding goal influences the optimal pricing strategy. In particular, when the funding goal is low, the penetration pricing strategy is preferred; while the skimming pricing strategy may be adopted under certain conditions. By analyzing the model extension, we find that the presence of regret cost is beneficial to the entrepreneur's profit under most circumstances.
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