Collaborative Prototyping and the Pricing of Custom-Designed Products

Management Science

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 145-158

  Terwiesch, Christian ^a   Loch, Christoph H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Customization; Design services; Prototyping; Search contracts; Search models

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; COSTS; FEES AND CHARGES; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

CUSTOMIZATION; DESIGN SERVICES; ECONOMIC AGENTS; SEARCH CONTRACTS; SEARCH MODELS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 1642275435     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1030.0178     Document Type: Article

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