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An integrated approach towards revenue management

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This paper argues that advanced demand exhibit three characteristics — that of being probabilistic, stochastic and deterministic. Deterministic demand results in revenue management practices being cross-functional. The paper proposes a new revenue management system that integrates four decision sets of the firm: the value set, the segmentation set, the sensitivity set and the forecasting set. An integrated revenue management system also links the concept of capacity to the attributes promised by the firm to the customer. The paper then proposes that service firms that do not sell ‘unitised’ services such as seats or rooms have to define and capture its amorphous capacity and through capacity limitation, create advanced demand and practice strategic revenue management.

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  1. School of Business and Economics, University of Exeter, Streatham Court, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4PU, UK

    Irene C L Ng

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1 Irene C. L. Ng is an associate professor of marketing and the Director for the Centre for Service Research at the School of Business and Economics, University of Exeter (UK). Irene was previously the CEO of SA Tours, the largest tour operator in Southeast Asia based in Malaysia, Singapore and China and the founder and CEO of Empress Cruise Lines, a cruise company turning over $250m per annum.

2 Roger Maull is a professor of Management Systems at the School of Business and Economics, University of Exeter, UK.

3 Philip Godsiff is a doctoral candidate at the School of Business and Economics, University of Exeter, UK.

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Ng, I., Maull, R. & Godsiff, P. An integrated approach towards revenue management. J Revenue Pricing Manag 7, 185–195 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1057/rpm.2008.10

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