Will more purchasing options benefit customers?

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 381-401

  Elmaghraby, Wedad ^a   Lippman, Steven A ^b   Tang, Christopher S ^b   Yin, Rui ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Callable products; Contingent sales; Reservation; Retailing; Revenue management

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149144420     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2009.01041.x     Document Type: Article

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