Integrating Pricing and Inventory Control: Is it Worth the Effort?

Business Research

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 106-123

  Gimpl Heersink, Lisa ^a   Rudloff, Christian ^a   Fleischmann, Moritz ^b   Taudes, Alfred ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Inventory Management; Pricing; Reference Price; Stochastic Demand Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951269646     PISSN: 21983402     EISSN: 21982627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03342705     Document Type: Article

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