Decentralized mechanism design for supply chain organizations using an auction market

Information Systems Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-22

  Fan, Ming ^a   Stallaert, Jan ^b   Whinston, Andrew B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Auction; Complementarity; Coordination Mechanism; Decentralized Information System; Incentive; Supply Chain

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SUPPLY CHAIN ORGANIZATIONS;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037626069     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.14.1.1.14763     Document Type: Article

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