Logistics pricing strategy considering information uncertainty in live-streaming commerce
研究了直播电商中物流服务商在信息不确定下如何选择统一或差异化定价策略，发现智能服务能否抵消拥堵成本是关键，为物流企业优化资源配置和缓解拥堵提供参考。
Promotional activities in live-streaming commerce (LSC) trigger order surges, exacerbating logistics congestion. However, existing literature on LSC logistics optimisation has not sufficiently incorporated the emerging characteristics of service heterogeneity and information incompatibility arising from digital transformation. Therefore, we propose a logistics pricing mechanism comparing uniform and differentiated pricing strategies and evaluate the impact of LSC business price sensitivity and information sharing on logistics pricing strategies, identifying the optimal conditions for differentiated or uniform pricing strategies under dynamic demand. Results indicate that logistics providers tend toward uniform pricing when smart service fails to offset congestion costs, whereas differentiated pricing becomes optimal when smart service significantly reduces processing costs through digitalised operations. Both congestion and smart service processing time jointly influence pricing decisions. Higher information ambiguity leads digitally advanced providers to implement uniform pricing strategies as protection from ambiguity-induced uncertainties. Changing order distribution patterns necessitate corresponding pricing adjustments. Our study provides pricing strategies that optimise resource allocation, mitigate congestion, and enhance LSC logistics efficiency.