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Pre-sale Pricing Strategy for Fresh Agricultural Products Under O2O

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Fresh agricultural products are indispensable necessities in daily life. The imbalance between supply and demand leads to large price fluctuations in normal state, thus torturing producers and consumers. When fresh agricultural products are pre-sold online, we discuss the optimal pricing strategies of suppliers and retailers in different periods based on dual-channel business model. Demand uncertainty is reduced to maximize supply chain profit. Research shows that the retailer has lower optimal price under centralized strategy than that under decentralized strategy. However, the supplier has the same optimal price under the two strategies. In official and discount sales periods, the optimal pricing is closely related to online market share. Suppliers and retailers adjust market shares to achieve optimal profit of supply chain. The optimal profit of supply chain increases first, and then decreases with the increase of consumer price elasticity index. Therefore, the suppliers and retailers can adjust sales strategy to affect consumer price elasticity index, thus achieving an optimal profit of supply chain.

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Many people have made invaluable contributions, both directly and indirectly to my research. I would like to express my warmest gratitude to Chunxiang Guo, my supervisor, for her instructive suggestions and valuable comments on the writing of this thesis. Without her invaluable help and generous encouragement, the present thesis would not have been accomplished. Besides, I wish to thank my colleague at Sichuan University, who helped me search for reference. My heart swells with gratitude to all the people who helped me.

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    Wenjing Wu & Chunxiang Guo

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  1. Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

    Jiuping Xu

  2. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Brock University on McMaster, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Syed Ejaz Ahmed

  3. Department of Management, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Fang Lee Cooke

  4. Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova

    Gheorghe Duca

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Wu, W., Guo, C. (2020). Pre-sale Pricing Strategy for Fresh Agricultural Products Under O2O. In: Xu, J., Ahmed, S., Cooke, F., Duca, G. (eds) Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. ICMSEM 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1002. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21255-1_24

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