On pricing and composition of bundles

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-108

  Bitran, Gabriel R ^a   Ferrer, Juan Carlos ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bundling; Consumer choice models; Pricing; Product line selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249724936     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2007.tb00168.x     Document Type: Article

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