Chapter 19 Pricing in Platforms and MarketplacesA Primer in Understanding All the Dimensions of the Pricing Problem and Opportunity in Marketplace Platforms

Simone Cicero

DOI: 10.4324/9781003226192-24

Platforms offer complex pricing opportunities

One of the highlights of a recent conversation I had with James Currier was that, increasingly, as we move into more vertical and managed marketplace opportunities, where a mix of platform-provided services often complement the more ‘transactional’ nature of the marketplace, pricing becomes a complex strategic matter (Boundaryless, 2021). Indeed, when thinking about pricing, in a platform-marketplace setting, one needs to understand that there are at least three contexts where pricing is a fundamental ...

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