Competition and outsourcing with scale economies

Management Science

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1314-1333

  Cachon, Gérar P ^a   Harker, Patrick T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coproduction; Economies of Scale; ECQ; Nash Equilibrium; Queuing; Service Operations

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; GAME THEORY; OUTSOURCING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ECONOMIC ORDER QUANTITY (EOQ);

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 0036815272     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.48.10.1314.271     Document Type: Article

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