How should a firm manage deteriorating inventory?

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 306-321

  Ferguson, Mark E ^a   Koenigsberg, Oded ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Internal competition; Perishable inventory; Pricing; Product line; Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847077461     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2007.tb00261.x     Document Type: Article

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