Testing Benford's Law for improving supply chain decision-making: A field experiment

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 606-618

  Hales, Douglas N ^a   Chakravorty, Satya S ^b   Sridharan, V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benford's Law; Digital analysis; Operations management; Supplier opportunism; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

BENFORD'S LAW; COST EFFECTIVE; DIGITAL ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; MONITORING SYSTEM; OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; PRODUCT RELIABILITY; REAL-WORLD; SUPPLIER OPPORTUNISM; TRUST-BUT-VERIFY;

DECISION MAKING; MANAGERS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 70350571677     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2009.06.017     Document Type: Article

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