An examination of the effect of continuous quality improvements on optimal pricing for durable goods

Decision Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 389-413

  Narasimhan, Ram ^a   Mendez, David ^b   Ghosh, Soumen ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic Optimization; Price; Quality; Sales Response

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030364916     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1996.tb01820.x     Document Type: Article

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