, legal and economic framework of the fixed-line telecommunications industry, this book investigates whether bundling is …

competition (i.e.competition from other firms' products), which can create inefficiency.On the contrary, bundling removes the … belonging to the best k. This unambiguouswelfare-enhancing e¤ect of bundling is novel. …

heterogeneous customer demand. Available literature broaching the issue of service bundling covers strategic considerations for … bundling. In this paper, we present an approach to service bundling that can be utilized by organizations to identify services … that are suitable for bundling. The contribution of the paper is twofold. Firstly, the proposed method represents a …

-good bundling model with multi-dimensional consumer preferences is developed to study the key factors that determine the optimal … bundling strategy. Using analytical and empirical methods, mixed bundling is established as the dominant (i.e. profit … maximizing) strategy. Pure unbundling is also shown to outperform pure bundling, even in the presence of some degree of economies …

obtaincompetitive advantage are of interest to scholars and practitioners alike. In this study Iexplore the bundling process and how … the three bundling sub-processes, severalproposed hypotheses were not testable and thus, unsupported. Current theory … detailsthree bundling sub-processes; however, I demonstrate evidence that fewer or greaternumbers of sub-processes may be required …

-select whether to buy both or only the product. We show that, in contrast to the common result in the bundling literature, often the … monopolist chooses not to offer the bundle (he either sells the service separately or not at all) while bundling would increase …

continue to set independently. In this paper, we model this bundling using Hotelling competition between two brands of each … bundling arrangements, there are no beneficiaries (the effect on equilibrium profits is zero) and consumers simply find …