Why do we observe stockless operations on the internet? Stockless operations under competition

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 139-149

  Sun, Daewon ^a   Ryan, Jennifer K ^b   Shin, Hojung ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Duopoly competition; Inventory management; Online retailing; Pricing; Stockless operation

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349125803     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3401/poms.1080.0012     Document Type: Article

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