Promised delivery time and capacity games in time-based competition

Management Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 599-610

  Shang, Weixin ^a   Liu, Liming ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Capacity competition; Consumer choice model; Marketing operations interface; Nash equilibrium; Quality differentiation; Switching surface; Time based competition

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY COMPETITION; CONSUMER CHOICE; NASH EQUILIBRIUM; QUALITY DIFFERENTIATION; SWITCHING SURFACE; TIME-BASED COMPETITION;

BENCHMARKING; COST REDUCTION; INDUSTRY; MARKETING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

COMPETITION;

EID: 79952929863     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1100.1292     Document Type: Article

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