Package size decisions

Management Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 485-494

  Koenigsberg, Oded ^a   Kohli, Rajeev ^a   Montoya, Ricardo ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Package size; Pricing; Product design; Product policy

Indexed keywords

COMPETING FIRMS; CONCAVE COST; CONVEX FUNCTIONS; COST-INCREASES; FIXED COST; PACKAGE SIZE; UNIT PRICES; UNIT VOLUME; USAGE RATE; VARIABLE COSTS;

COST ACCOUNTING; COST FUNCTIONS; COSTS; PACKAGING;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 77949556510     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1090.1119     Document Type: Article

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