Publication Type
Conference Paper
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
11-2011
Abstract
Frequent new product release and technological uncertainty about the release time pose significant challenges for firms to manage successive generation of products. On the one hand, strategic consumers may delay their purchase decision and substitute the earlier generation with the newer generation product. On the other hand, the firm must fully anticipate consumer reactions and take into account the effect of their strategic behavior on product pricing and successive generation product diffusion. This paper proposes a prediction market to forecast new product release. We show that the market information aggregation mechanism can improve forecast accuracy of new product launch. Better forecasting increases consumer surplus, firm revenue, and social welfare.
Discipline
Computer Sciences | Management Information Systems
Research Areas
Information Systems and Management
Publication
INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology CIST 2011, November 12-13
City or Country
Charlotte, NC
Citation
GUO, Zhiling.
Managing Successive Generation Product Diffusion in the Presence of Strategic Consumers. (2011). INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology CIST 2011, November 12-13.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1878
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