Pricing and the newsvendor problem: a review with extensions

Operations Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 183-194

  Petruzzi, Nicholas C ^a   Dada, Maqbool ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INVENTORY CONTROL; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; SALES;

NEWSVENDOR PROBLEM; OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY; PRICING; STOCHASTIC INVENTORY THEORY; STOCKING QUANTITY;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0032689092     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.47.2.183     Document Type: Article

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