Inventory investment, product cycles, and the imperfectly competitive firm

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 267-276

  Jones, Philip C ^a   Moses, Leon N ^b   Zydiak, James L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Imperfect competition; Multiple products; Rotation cycle scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INVENTORY CONTROL; PROCESS CONTROL; SCHEDULING;

IMPERFECT COMPETITIONS; MULTIPLE PRODUCTS; ROTATION CYCLE SCHEDULING;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0346972253     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5273(98)00002-4     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. L. Arvan, L.N. Moses, Inventory investment and the theory of the firm, American Economic Review 72 (1982) 186-193.
2. L. Arvan, L.N. Moses, A model of the firm in time and space, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 9 (1985) 77-100.
3. P.L. Abad, Determining optimal selling price and lot size when the supplier offers all-unit quantity discounts, Decision Sciences 19 (1988) 622-634.
4. W.J. Lee, Determining order quantity and selling price by geometric programming: optimal solution, bounds, and sensitivity, Decision Sciences 24 (1993) 76-87.
5. W.J. Lee, Optimal order quantities and prices with storage space and inventory investment limitations, Computers and Industrial Engineering 26 (1994) 481-488.
6. P. Milgrom, J. Roberts, The economics of modern manufacturing: technology, strategy, and organization, American Economic Review 80 (1990) 511-528.
7. A. Jeuland, S. Shugan, Managing channel profits, Marketing Science 2 (1983) 239-272.
8. S. Li, Z. Huang, A. Ashley, Improving buyer-seller system cooperation through inventory control, International Journal of Production Economics 43 (1996) 37-46.
9. Z. Weng, Modeling quantity discounts under general price-sensitive demand functions: optimal policies and relationships, European Journal of Operational Research 86 (1995) 300-314.
10. Z. Weng, Channel coordination and quantity discounts, Management Science 41 (1995) 1509-1522.
11. Z. Weng, R. Wong, General models for the supplier's all-unit quantity discount policy, Naval Research Logistics 40 (1993) 971-991.
12. J. Freidenfelds, Capacity Expansion: Analysis of Simple Models with Applications, North-Holland, New York, 1981.
13. Microsoft, Microsoft Excel, Release 5.0 Manual and Software. Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, 1993.
14. W. Hsu, On the general feasibility test of scheduling lot sizes for several products on one machine, Management Science 29 (1983) 93-105.
15. C.H. Papadimitriou, K. Steiglitz, Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1982.
16. P.C. Jones, R.R. Inman, When is the economic lot scheduling problem easy?, IIE Transactions 21 (1989) 11-20.