This research studies the price competition between a Software as a Service (SaaS) vendor, who adopts a subscription-based pricing scheme, and an on-premises vendor, who uses a perpetual license scheme. The SaaS vendor decides its subscription price, and the on-premises software vendor decides...

In this paper, we analyze the profitability of selling and leasing models by considering both software upgrades and different price discrimination strategies. We construct a two-period model to study software upgrades, consumers' inter-temporal purchase behavior, and the price discrimination...

This research studies the price competition between a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendor, who adopts subscription-based pricing scheme, and an on-premises vendor, who uses perpetual license scheme. The SaaS vendor decides its subscription price, and the on-premises software vendor decides the...