Advance selling by a newsvendor retailer

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 129-142

  Prasad, Ashutosh ^a   Stecke, Kathryn E ^a   Zhao, Xuying ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

advance selling; consumer valuation; newsvendor; pricing; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951991944     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2010.01133.x     Document Type: Article

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