Coordinating Contracts for Decentralized Supply Chains with Retailer Promotional Effort

Management Science

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-63

  Krishnan, Harish ^a   Kapuscinski, Roman ^b   Butz, David A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Buyback; Channel coordination; Cost sharing; Incentives; Inventory management; Markdown allowance; Promotional effort; Returns policies; Sales effort; Supply chain management; Supply contracts

Indexed keywords

COSTS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MARKETING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING;

BUYBACK; CHANNEL COORDINATION; COST SHARING; INCENTIVES; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; PROMOTIONAL EFFORT; RETURN POLICIES; SALES EFFORT; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CONTRACTS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 1342326252     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1030.0154     Document Type: Review

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