Quantity discount pricing policies for heterogeneous retailers with price Sensitive Demand

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 645-658

  Wang, Qinan ^a   Wang, Ruifang ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous buyers; Price sensitive demand; Pricing policies; Quantity discounts

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; GAME THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HETEROGENEOUS BUYERS; PRICE SENSITIVE DEMAND; PRICING POLICIES; QUANTITY DISCOUNTS;

PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 27744451246     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20103     Document Type: Article

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