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Pricing strategies in reward-based crowdfunding: Whether to introduce price guarantee?
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review ( IF 8.3 ) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 , DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2023.103024
Yanhong Sun , Yiyun Sheng , Shuai Yan , Wei Zhang

Reward-based crowdfunding often exhibits high uncertainty in terms of product quality and market performance; thus, consumers may choose to strategically delay their purchases until crowdfunding succeeds. Price guarantee (PG) is adopted by some crowdfunding platforms to encourage consumers’ participation in crowdfunding, but it also reduces the flexibility to change prices in the future. To address the strategic issue for reward-based crowdfunding regarding whether to introduce PG, we develop a two-stage theoretical model composed of a crowdfunding stage and a regular selling stage. The results show that whether to introduce PG heavily depends on the crowdfunding project’s funding target and community benefit. When the funding target is relatively low, the creator can offer PG as an effective substitute for community benefit to achieve crowdfunding success and increase profit, but it is unwise to offer both. That is, introducing PG can simultaneously increase the crowdfunding amount and the two-stage profit in the case of relatively low community benefit. When the funding target is relatively high, the creator will adopt a target-dependent pricing scheme to guarantee crowdfunding success. In this case, PG can increase the upper bound of the funding target but will decrease the profit in most situations. Our results also show that PG can increase both the creator’s and consumers’ payoffs under some conditions. The main findings are verified by means of empirical examples, and some managerial insights are obtained.



中文翻译:

奖励众筹中的定价策略:是否引入价格保证?

奖励型众筹往往在产品质量和市场表现方面表现出高度的不确定性;因此,消费者可能会选择有策略地推迟购买,直到众筹成功。一些众筹平台采用价格保证(PG)来鼓励消费者参与众筹,但这也降低了未来更改价格的灵活性。为了解决奖励型众筹是否引入 PG 的战略问题,我们开发了一个由众筹阶段和常规销售阶段组成的两阶段理论模型。结果表明,是否引入 PG 在很大程度上取决于众筹项目的筹资目标和社区利益。当资金目标相对较低时,创作者可以提供 PG 作为社区福利的有效替代品,以实现众筹成功和增加利润,但两者都提供是不明智的。即引入PG可以在社区收益相对较低的情况下,同时增加众筹金额和两阶段收益。当众筹目标较高时,创作者会采用目标定价方案来保证众筹成功。在这种情况下,PG 可以提高资金目标的上限,但在大多数情况下会降低利润。我们的结果还表明,在某些情况下,PG 可以增加创作者和消费者的收益。通过实证实例验证了主要发现,并获得了一些管理见解。引入 PG 可以在社区收益相对较低的情况下,同时提高众筹额度和二阶段收益。当众筹目标较高时,创作者会采用目标定价方案来保证众筹成功。在这种情况下,PG 可以提高资金目标的上限,但在大多数情况下会降低利润。我们的结果还表明,在某些情况下,PG 可以增加创作者和消费者的收益。通过实证实例验证了主要发现,并获得了一些管理见解。引入 PG 可以在社区收益相对较低的情况下,同时提高众筹额度和二阶段收益。当众筹目标较高时,创作者会采用目标定价方案来保证众筹成功。在这种情况下,PG 可以提高资金目标的上限,但在大多数情况下会降低利润。我们的结果还表明,在某些情况下,PG 可以增加创作者和消费者的收益。通过实证实例验证了主要发现,并获得了一些管理见解。创作者将采用目标依赖定价方案来保证众筹成功。在这种情况下,PG 可以提高资金目标的上限,但在大多数情况下会降低利润。我们的结果还表明,在某些情况下,PG 可以增加创作者和消费者的收益。通过实证实例验证了主要发现,并获得了一些管理见解。创作者将采用目标依赖定价方案来保证众筹成功。在这种情况下,PG 可以提高资金目标的上限,但在大多数情况下会降低利润。我们的结果还表明,在某些情况下,PG 可以增加创作者和消费者的收益。通过实证实例验证了主要发现,并获得了一些管理见解。

更新日期:2023-01-20
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