On the benefits of assortment-based cooperation among independent producers

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 626-640

  Akçay, Yalçin ^a   Bariş, Tan ^a  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Assortment pooling; Cooperation; Customer choice; Network organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649109436     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3401/poms.1080.0067     Document Type: Article

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