Measuring the impact of increased product substitution on pricing and capacity decisions under linear demand models

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 95-113

  Lus, Betul ^a   Muriel, Ana ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity and flexibility planning; Demand modeling; Pricing; Product substitutability

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849299080     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2009.01001.x     Document Type: Article

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