Alliance formation among perfectly complementary suppliers in a price-sensitive assembly system

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 527-544

  Yin, Shuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliance formation; Assembly system; Demand curvature; Pass through rate

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL COSTS; ALLIANCE FORMATION; ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS; COALITION FORMATIONS; COST SAVING; DEMAND FUNCTION; DEMAND UNCERTAINTY; DETERMINISTIC DEMAND; DIFFERENT SIZES; MARKET DEMAND; POWER DEMANDS; PRICE SENSITIVE; PRICE-SENSITIVE DEMAND; PRICING DECISION; RETAIL PRICE; SEQUENTIAL DECISION MAKING; STABLE COALITION; STOCHASTIC ELEMENTS; UNCERTAIN DEMAND;

ASSEMBLY; DECISION MAKING; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; SALES; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

COSTS;

EID: 77954618882     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1090.0283     Document Type: Article

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