Static and dynamic pricing of excess capacity in a make-to-order environment

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 411-425

  Hall, Joseph M ^a   Kopalle, Praveen K ^a   Pyke, David F ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic control; Make to order; Pricing; Queueing; Revenue management

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149148685     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2009.01044.x     Document Type: Article

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