On the value of commitment and availability guarantees when selling to strategic consumers

Management Science

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 713-726

  Su, Xuanming ^a   Zhang, Fuqiang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability guarantee; Commitment; Newsvendor; Product availability; Rational expectations; Search costs; Stockouts

Indexed keywords

COMMITMENT; NEWSVENDOR; PRODUCT AVAILABILITY; RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS; SEARCH COSTS; STOCKOUTS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 67649921430     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1080.0991     Document Type: Article

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