Impact of price postponement on capacity and flexibility investment decisions

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 198-214

  Biller, Stephan ^a   Muriel, Ana ^b   Zhang, Yongmei ^c  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c 4Rsystems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Dedicated and flexible capacity investments; Pricing; Stochastic programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746174285     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2006.tb00240.x     Document Type: Article

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