Integrating activity-based costing and revenue management approaches to analyse the remanufacturing outsourcing decision with qualitative factors

International Journal of Revenue Management

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 367-387

  Tsai, Wen Hsien ^a   Hsu, Jui Ling ^a,b   Chen, Chia Hsin ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TA HWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c MINGHSIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

activity based costing; outsourcing; remanufacture; Revenue Management; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249105461     PISSN: 14747332     EISSN: 17418186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJRM.2007.015539     Document Type: Article

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