Contracting with an urgent supplier under cost information asymmetry

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 374-383

  Xu, He ^a   Shi, Ning ^b   Ma, Shi hua ^a   Lai, Kin Keung ^c  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Decision analysis; Game theory; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC COSTS; ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION; CONTRACT MENU; COST INFORMATION; DECISION ANALYSIS; LEADTIME; LOCAL SUPPLIERS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OVERSEAS SUPPLIERS; PRIME SUPPLIERS; PRODUCTION COST; QUALITY PRODUCT; SETTING PROBLEMS; STACKELBERG GAMES; TRANSFER PAYMENT;

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; GAME THEORY; MANUFACTURE; PROFITABILITY;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 77950371205     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2010.03.012     Document Type: Article

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