The Impact of Retail Price Maintenance on Consumers, Discounters and E-tailersGaskill, FrankBusiness Journal for Entrepreneurs
Capital investment to date has been minimal for the majority of the market, despite the rapid growth. This has contributed to the industry's profitability, but it will be difficult to sustain as competition intensifies, technology evolves, and consumer expectations ...
Specifically, we (1) identify some key dimensions of e-tailer heterogeneity using factor analysis; (2) identify clusters of e-tailers on these dimensions using cluster analysis; (3) analyze how market factors affect price dispersion using regression analyses; and (4) examine how heterogeneity ...