Coordination of a supply chain with a loss-averse retailer under two types of contracts

International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-25

  Shi, Kuiran ^a   Xiao, Tiaojun ^b  

^a NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

buyback contract; game theory; loss aversion; markdown money contract; supply chain coordination

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954427898     PISSN: 17567017     EISSN: 17567025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJIDS.2008.020033     Document Type: Article

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