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Quality-Speed Competition in Customer-Intensive Services with Boundedly Rational Customers | |
Xin Li1; Pengfei Guo2; Zhaotong Lian3 | |
2016-11 | |
Source Publication | Production and Operations Management |
ABS Journal Level | 4 |
ISSN | 1059-1478 |
Volume | 25Issue:11Pages:1885-1901 |
Abstract | We consider a system in which two competing servers provide customer-intensive services and the service reward is affected by the length of service time. The customers are boundedly rational and choose their service providers according to a logit model. We demonstrate that the service provider revenue function is unimodal in the service rate, its decision variable, and show that the service rate competition has a unique and stable equilibrium. We then study the price decision under three scenarios with the price determined by a revenue-maximizing firm, a welfare-maximizing social planner, or two servers in competition. We find that the socially optimal price, subject to the requirement that the customer actual utility must be non-negative, is always lower than the competition equilibrium price which, in turn, is lower than the revenue-maximizing monopoly price. However, if the customer actual utility is allowed to be negative in social optimization, the socially optimal price can be higher than the other two prices in a large market. |
Keyword | Bounded Rationality Customer-intensive Service Queueing Strategy Speed-quality Competition |
DOI | 10.1111/poms.12583 |
URL | View the original |
Indexed By | SCIE ; SSCI |
Language | 英語English |
WOS Research Area | Engineering ; Operations Research & Management Science |
WOS Subject | Engineering, Manufacturing ; Operations Research & Management Science |
WOS ID | WOS:000387757600006 |
Publisher | WILEY-BLACKWELL, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA |
Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-84979784705 |
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Document Type | Journal article |
Collection | DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT University of Macau |
Affiliation | 1.Department of Decision Sciences,School of Business,Macau University of Science and Technology,,Taipa,Macao 2.Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies,The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,,Hong Kong,Hong Kong 3.Faculty of Business Administration,E22,University of Macau,,Taipa,Macao |
First Author Affilication | University of Macau |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Xin Li,Pengfei Guo,Zhaotong Lian. Quality-Speed Competition in Customer-Intensive Services with Boundedly Rational Customers[J]. Production and Operations Management, 2016, 25(11), 1885-1901. |
APA | Xin Li., Pengfei Guo., & Zhaotong Lian (2016). Quality-Speed Competition in Customer-Intensive Services with Boundedly Rational Customers. Production and Operations Management, 25(11), 1885-1901. |
MLA | Xin Li,et al."Quality-Speed Competition in Customer-Intensive Services with Boundedly Rational Customers".Production and Operations Management 25.11(2016):1885-1901. |
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