Benefiting from the risk-pooling effect: internal (component commonality) vs. external (demand reshape) efforts

International Journal of Services and Operations Management

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 90-99

  Eynan, Amit ^a   Fouque, Thierry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU HAVRE   (France)

Author keywords

component commonality; demand reshape; risk pooling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747386648     PISSN: 17442370     EISSN: 17442389     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2005.006320     Document Type: Article

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