Price rigidity involves prices that do not change with the regularity predicted by standard economic theory, and is of long-standing interest to firms and industries, and relates to the economy as a whole. As information technology (IT) changes the processes by which strategic pricing decisions...

We explore daily patterns of Internet pricing for the two major retailers, Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com (BN), using data on 377 books collected over a 449-day period in 2003-2004. We frame this investigation in terms of a key question: How rigid are prices on the Internet? Are there...

We study the link between price points and price rigidity, using two datasets - weekly scanner data and Internet data. We find that (i) 9 is the most frequently used price-ending for the penny, dime, dollar, and ten-dollar digits, (ii) the most common price changes are those that keep the price...

The importance of distinguishing between potential and realized value for IT investments has been recognized by senior managers and IS researchers since some time in the 1980s, when it became apparent that not all IT investments were likely to achieve equivalent levels of return on investment....

pt. 1. Strategies for empirical advances in information systems and e-commerce research -- pt. 2. Understanding the dynamics and outcomes associated with information technology investments -- pt. 3. New approaches for studying mechanism design in online auctions -- pt. 4. New empirical...

The methods and thinking of economics permeate a large part of the IS discipline. Reciprocally, newly emerging research methods relying on the IT-enabled treatment of massive data aggregates feed economic research. As new and radical forms of IT innovation continue to energize electronic...

There is increasing empirical evidence from academic research and strong recognition among policymakers that wide diffusion and innovative uses of digital wireless phones are important sources of a country's economic growth and social development. Adopters do not necessarily adopt digital...

We offer new evidence on the link between price points and price rigidity using two datasets. One is a large weekly transaction price dataset, covering 29 product categories over an eight-year period from a large U.S. supermarket chain. The other is from the Internet, and includes daily prices...