Arora, Ashish; Greenwald, Amy; Kannan, Karthik; … - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 8, pp. 1234-1248
Geographically dispersed sellers in electronic reverse marketplaces such as those hosted by market-makers like Ariba are uncertain about the number of competitors they face in any given market session. We refer to this uncertainty about the number of competitors as market-structure uncertainty....