Das vorliegende Discussion Paper befasst sich mit der Entwicklung, Nachfrage und dem Angebot von "Bleisure Travel" als einer neuen Form der Geschäftsreise. Bleisure Travel bezeichnet die Kombination von Geschäftsreise und Urlaub in einer Reise. Der Reiseanlass ist dabei beruflich determiniert,...

Customers' evaluation of the service process has important implications for service providers. However, research on customer participation at the specification stage of a customization process and its effects on the evaluation of the process and service outcome is still scarce. This paper...

Although the effect of monetary sunk costs on decision-making is widely discussed, research is still fragmented, and results are sometimes controversial. One reason for this incomplete picture is the missing differentiation between the effect of sunk costs on utilization and progress decisions...

In oligopoly, imitating the most successful competitor yields very competitive outcomes. This theoretical prediction has been confirmed experimentally by a number of studies. A recent paper by Friedman et al. (2015) qualifies those results in an interesting way: while they replicate the very...

Personalized dynamic pricing (PDP) involves dynamically setting individual-consumer prices for the same product or service according to consumer-identifying information. Despite its profitability, this pricing provokes strong negative fairness perceptions, explaining why managers are reluctant...