Forty years of Out-of-Stock research - and shelves are still empty

International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 147-164

  Aastrup, Jesper ^a   Kotzab, Herbert ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Consumer responses; Grocery supply chains; On Shelf availability; Out of Stock; Store operations

Indexed keywords

EID: 76949086590     PISSN: 09593969     EISSN: 14664402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593960903498284     Document Type: Article

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