Free shipping policy for imported cross-border e-commerce platforms

DOI10.1007/S10479-022-04774-5MaRDI QIDQ6547121zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Shuihua Han, Shan Chen, Kai Yang, Hongcan Li, Fanjing Yang, Zong-wei Luo

Publication date 30 May 2024

Published in Annals of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S10479-022-04774-5

zbMATH Keywords

consumer decision-makingcross-border e-commercefree shippingshipping pricingthreshold free shipping

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transportation, logistics and supply chain management (90B06) Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Microeconomic theory (price theory and economic markets) (91B24)

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