Capacity expansion and replacement in growing markets with uncertain technological breakthroughs

Management Science

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 12-30

  Rajagopalan, Sampath ^a   Singh, Medini R ^a   Morton, Thomas E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Capacity Expansion; Equipment Replacement; Management of Technology; Stochastic Dynamic Programming; Technology Adoption Models

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION THEORY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION MODELS;

TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

EID: 0031682853     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.44.1.12     Document Type: Article

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