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Product Pricing in the e-Business Era

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Heching, A., Leung, Y.T. (2005). Product Pricing in the e-Business Era. In: An, C., Fromm, H. (eds) Supply Chain Management on Demand. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27354-9_4

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