Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail: The Effect of Search Costs on the Concentration of Product Sales
Many markets have historically been dominated by a small number of best-selling products. The Pareto principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, describes this common pattern of sales concentration. However, information technology in general and Internet markets in particular have the potential to subs...
Main Authors: | Brynjolfsson, Erik, Hu, Yu (Jeffrey), Simester, Duncan |
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Other Authors: | Sloan School of Management |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74642 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2758-0116 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8031-6990 |
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