Joint pricing and contingent free-shipping decisions in B2C transactions

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 390-405

  Leng, Mingming ^a   Becerril Arreola, Rafael ^b  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingent free shipping; Duopoly; Marketing operations interface; Monopoly; Profit margin

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955441339     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2009.01112.x     Document Type: Article

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