Vertically restrictive pricing in supply chains with price-dependent demand

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 485-501

  Liu, Yong ^a   Fry, Michael J ^a   Raturi, Amitabh S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Price dependent demand; Supply chain; Vertically restrictive pricing

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED SUPPLY CHAIN; PRICE DEPENDENT DEMAND; RETAIL FIXED MARKUP (RFM); VERTICALLY RESTRICTIVE PRICING;

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33748319739     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20153     Document Type: Article

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