Information and organization for horizontal multimarket coordination

Management Science

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1609-1627

  Anand, Krishnan S ^a   Mendelson, Haim ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination; Information Systems; Organizational Design; Retailing

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MARKETING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

HORIZONTAL MULTIMARKET COORDINATION;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031353006     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.43.12.1609     Document Type: Article

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