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Quality-Speed Competition in Customer-Intensive Services with Boundedly Rational Customers
Xin Li1; Pengfei Guo2; Zhaotong Lian3
2016-11
Source PublicationProduction and Operations Management
ABS Journal Level4
ISSN1059-1478
Volume25Issue: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.

KeywordBounded Rationality Customer-intensive Service Queueing Strategy Speed-quality Competition
DOI10.1111/poms.12583
URLView the original
Indexed BySCIE ; SSCI
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaEngineering ; Operations Research & Management Science
WOS SubjectEngineering, Manufacturing ; Operations Research & Management Science
WOS IDWOS:000387757600006
PublisherWILEY-BLACKWELL, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA
Scopus ID2-s2.0-84979784705
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CollectionDEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
University of Macau
Affiliation1.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 AffilicationUniversity of Macau
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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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