Market Sharing Dynamics Between Two Service Providers

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Title
Market Sharing Dynamics Between Two Service Providers
Journal
European Journal of Operational Research
Author(s)
Gallay O., Hongler M.-O.
ISSN
0377-2217
Publication state
Published
Issued date
01/10/2008
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
190
Number
1
Pages
241-254
Language
english
Abstract
We study the market partition between two distinct firms that deliver services to waiting time sensitive customers. In our model, the incoming customers select a firm on the basis of its posted price, the expected waiting time and its brand. More specifically, we quantify by a cost any departure from the ideal brand expected by each incoming customer. Considering that the two underlying queueing processes operate under high traffic regimes, we analyze the market sharing dynamics by using a diffusion process. As a function of control parameters, such as the waiting and brand departure costs or the incoming traffic intensity, we are able to analytically characterize a transition between an Hotelling-like regime (dominated by brand considerations) and a deadline type regime (dominated by waiting time considerations). The market sharing dynamics is described by the time evolution of a boundary point, which time evolution belongs to the class of noise-induced phase transitions, so far widely discussed in physics, chemistry and biology. Explicit illustrations for both symmetric (i.e. identical servers) and asymmetric cases are worked out.
Keywords
Stochastic processes, Hotelling model, Heavy traffic queueing dynamics, Multiplicative noise, Noise-induced phase transition
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