Allocation of gains from inventory centralization in newsvendor environments

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 93-107

  Hartman, Bruce C ^a   Dror, Moshe ^b  

^a SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GAME THEORY; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION;

COOPERATIVE GAME; INVENTORY MODEL;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 11844299617     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170490278283     Document Type: Article

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