Coordinating pricing and inventory decisions in a multi-level supply chain: A game-theoretic approach

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-129

  Huang, Yun ^a   Huang, George Q ^a   Newman, Stephen T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic non cooperative game; Inventory; Multi level supply chain; Nash equilibrium; Pricing; Product family design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COSTS; GAME THEORY; PRODUCT DESIGN;

COMPONENT SELECTION; DYNAMIC NON-COOPERATIVE GAME; INVENTORY; INVENTORY DECISIONS; MULTI-LEVEL SUPPLY CHAIN; MULTILEVELS; NASH EQUILIBRIA; NONCOOPERATIVE GAME; PRICING DECISION; PRODUCT FAMILY DESIGN;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

DECISION MAKING; DESIGN METHOD; GAME THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANNING METHOD; PRICING POLICY;

EID: 78650305416     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2010.09.011     Document Type: Article

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