Discount pricing policies and the coordination of decentralized distribution systems

Decision Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 627-646

  Wang, Qinan ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Pricing Policy; Quantity Discounts; Supply Chain Coordination; Volume Discounts

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745310678     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5414.2005.00105.x     Document Type: Article

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