![]() ![]() Published online in Articles in Advance December 18, 2014. History: Received: Januaccepted: OctoPreyas Desai served as the editor-in-chief and Christophe van den Bulte served as associate editor for this article. Keywords: price penetration price skimming dynamic pricing strategy product life cycle consumer durables brand competition The authors discuss managerial implications. The specific pricing paths correlate with market, firm, and brand characteristics such as competitive intensity, market pioneering, brand reputation, and experience effects. Firms exhibit a mix of these pricing paths across their portfolios. Penetration pricing launches the new product 18% below the market price and subsequently lowers the price relative to the market price. Skimming pricing launches the new product 16% above the market price and subsequently increases the price relative to the market price. In particular, the authors find five patterns: skimming (20% frequency), penetration (20% frequency), and three variants of market-pricing patterns (60% frequency), where new products are launched at market prices. The authors find that, despite numerous recommendations in the literature for skimming or penetration pricing, market pricing dominates in practice. The authors develop a method to classify dynamic pricing strategies and analyze the choice and correlates of observed pricing paths in the introduction and early growth phase of this market. This study seeks to analyze dynamic pricing paths in a highly complex branded market, consisting of 663 products under 79 brand names of digital cameras. Current complex dynamic markets are characterized by numerous brands, each with multiple products and price points, and differentiated on a variety of product attributes plus a large number of new product introductions. ![]()
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