Pricing and manufacturing decisions when demand is a function of prices in multiple periods

Operations Research

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1039-1057

  Ahn, Hyun Soo ^a   Gümüş, Mehmet ^b   Kaminsky, Philip ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Deterministic; Inventory production: uncertainty; Marketing: pricing; Operating characteristics; Planning horizons

Indexed keywords

OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; PLANNING HORIZONS;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MANUFACTURE;

EID: 38549172189     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1070.0411     Document Type: Article

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