Outsourcing or capacity expansions: Application of activity-based costing model on joint products decisions

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3666-3681

  Tsai, Wen Hsien ^a   Lai, Chien Wen ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Activity based costing (ABC); Joint products; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING (ABC); CAPACITY EXPANSIONS; JOINT PRODUCTS; PRODUCTS DECISIONS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 34247491022     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2006.01.008     Document Type: Article

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