Two-period discount pricing strategies for an e-commerce platform with strategic consumers

C Li, M Chu, C Zhou, L Zhao - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Flourishing online retail models have prompted platforms to design different discount pricing
strategies of online coupons for strategic consumer behavior. To this end, we establish two …

Customer choice models vs. machine learning: Finding optimal product displays on Alibaba

J Feldman, DJ Zhang, X Liu… - Operations Research, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
We compare the performance of two approaches for finding the optimal set of products to
display to customers landing on Alibaba's two online marketplaces, Tmall and Taobao. We …

[HTML][HTML] Will they take this offer? A machine learning price elasticity model for predicting upselling acceptance of premium airline seating

S Thirumuruganathan, N Al Emadi, S Jung… - Information & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Employing customer information from one of the world's largest airline companies, we
develop a price elasticity model (PREM) using machine learning to identify customers likely …

How much to tell your customer?–A survey of three perspectives on selling strategies with incompletely specified products

J Gönsch - European Journal of Operational Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Today's technology facilitates selling strategies that were unthinkable only a few years ago.
One increasingly popular strategy uses incompletely specified products (ICSPs). The seller …

Impact of customer environmental attitude-behavior gap

Y Lin, D Wu, CH Chiu - Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigates how the customer environmental attitude-behavior gap affects a
hotel's total carbon emissions and profits. Results indicate that this gap does not affect the …

Effectiveness of discount incentives in carbon reduction: Impact of customer-perceived value sacrificed for green hotels

Y Lin, CH Chiu - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
To improve carbon reduction efficiency, green hotels adopt cash discount incentives to
encourage green customer behavior. However, the effectiveness of these incentives in …

Online upselling: Moving beyond offline upselling in the hotel industry

BD Guillet - International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2020 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to understand how online upselling is used in the hotel industry
as a part of revenue management strategy. This study used a convergent parallel mixed …

On-demand features: Consumer reactions to tangibility and pricing structure

T Schaefers, M Leban, F Vogt - Journal of Business Research, 2022 - Elsevier
As a service innovation in the sharing economy, on-demand features (ODFs) allow
customers to temporarily access additional features of a product they already own in return …

The joint influence of the timing and framing of an online upselling message on consumer perceptions: the roles of construal level and reactance

B Denizci Guillet, AS Mattila, Z Peng… - International Journal of …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the interactive effect of timing and framing
of hotel's upselling message on consumer attitudes toward the message. The mediating role …

The dark side of up-selling promotions: Evidence from an analysis of cross-brand purchase behavior☆

CH Park, TJ Yoon - Journal of Retailing, 2022 - Elsevier
This research investigates how up-and down-selling promotions affect customers' cross-
brand purchasing and churn behavior at a multi-brand retailer. We employ a hidden Markov …