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Simon, Gary

Topic Weight Topic Terms
0.239 market competition competitive network markets firms products competing competitor differentiation advantage competitors presence dominant structure
0.211 market trading markets exchange traders trade transaction financial orders securities significant established number exchanges regulatory
0.166 consumer consumers model optimal welfare price market pricing equilibrium surplus different higher results strategy quality
0.151 online consumers consumer product purchase shopping e-commerce products commerce website electronic results study behavior experience

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Bakos, Yannis 1 Lucas Jr., Henry C. 1 Oh, Wonseok 1 Viswanathan, Siva 1
Weber, Bruce W. 1
e-commerce 1 execution quality 1 impact of information technology 1 unbundling 1

Articles (1)

The Impact of E-Commerce on Competition the Retail Brokerage Industry. (Information Systems Research, 2005)
Authors: Abstract:
    This paper analyzes the impact of e-commerce on markets where established firms face competition from Internet-based entrants with focused offerings. In particular, we study the retail brokerage sector where the growth of online brokerages and the availability of alternate sources of information and research services have challenged the dominance of traditional brokerages. We develop a stylized game-theoretic model to analyze the impact of competition between an incumbent full-service brokerage firm with a bundled offering of research services and trade execution and an online entrant offering just trade execution. We find that as consumers' willingness to pay for research declines, the incumbent finds it optimal to unbundle its offering when competing with the online entrant. We also find that the online entrant chooses a lower quality of trade execution when faced with direct competition from the incumbent's unbundled offering. The analytical model motivates a unique field experiment placing actual simultaneous trades with traditional full-service and online brokers, to compare order handling practices and the quality of trade execution. In keeping with our analytical results, our empirical findings show a significant difference in the quality of execution between online brokerages and their full-service counterparts. We discuss the relevance of our findings for quality differentiation, price convergence, and profit decline in a variety of markets where traditional incumbents are faced with changes in the competitive landscape as a result of e-commerce.