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JOURNAL OF REVENUE AND PRICING MANAGEMENT
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 204-216Publisher
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD
DOI: 10.1057/rpm.2010.12
Keywords
pricing; competitive strategy; game theory; software industry
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With the emergence of high speed networks, software firms have the ability to deploy 'software as a service' and measure resource usage at the level of individual customers. This enables the implementation of usage-based pricing. We study both fixed and usage-based pricing schemes in a competitive setting where the firm incurs a transaction cost of monitoring usage if it implements usage-based pricing. Offering different pricing schemes helps to differentiate the firms and relax price competition, particularly at higher monitoring costs, even when competing firms offer the same service quality. However, the low usage customers acquired by offering usage-based pricing are unable to compensate for the monitoring costs incurred. This implies that managers should be cautious about implementing usage-based pricing in a competitive setting.
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