Simple relational contracts to motivate capacity investment: Price only vs. price and quantity

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 94-113

  Taylor, Terry A ^a,b   Plambeck, Erica L ^c  

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

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity investment; Price only contracts; Relational contracts; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY INVESTMENTS; PRICE-ONLY CONTRACTS; RELATIONAL CONTRACTS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

COSTS; INVESTMENTS; MOTIVATION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

CONTRACTS;

EID: 33847321122     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1060.0126     Document Type: Article

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