Selling to the Newsvendor: An Analysis of Price-Only Contracts

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 293-305

  Lariviere, Martin A ^a   Porteus, Evan L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Channel Coordination; Supply Chain Contracting; Supply Chain Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000233259     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.3.4.293.9971     Document Type: Article

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