1st Edition

Incentive Mechanism Design in Product and Platform Services

By Qin Zhou Copyright 2027
208 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

As manufacturers increasingly bundle products with services and digital platforms transform on-demand service delivery, designing effective incentive mechanisms has become a central challenge. This book presents an integrated analytical framework to address this challenge across product-service systems and digital platforms.   The book examines incentive mechanisms in two key contexts. First,... Read more

1 Introduction  Section I  Physical Product Service  2 Hidden Reliability and Information Asymmetry in Extended Warranty Markets  3 Decentralized Friction: Intermediaries in Service Supply Chains  Section II Digital Platform Service  4 Capacity Rigidity: Navigating Price Regulations in the Platform Economy  5 Qualification Scheme: Supply Shifting through Access Control  6 Prioritization Scheme: Service Priority As Incentive  7 Strategic Commissions: Differential Commission Rates As A Balancing Lever  8 Synthesis: A Unified Framework for Incentive Engineering  9 Conclusion

Biography

Qin Zhou is an assistant professor at Shanghai International School of Chief Technology Officer and Asia-Europe Business School, East China Normal University. Her research focuses on operations, supply chain management, and the platform economy under emerging business models.