Stockout compensation: Joint inventory and price optimization in electronic retailing

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 255-266

  Bhargava, Hemant K ^a   Sun, Daewon ^b   Xu, Susan H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay sensitive demand; Differential pricing; Electronic commerce; Inventory management; Stockout discount

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745683440     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: 15265528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.1040.0091     Document Type: Article

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