Contract complexity and performance under asymmetric demand information: An experimental evaluation

Management Science

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 689-704

  Kalkanci, Basak ^a   Chen, Kay Yut ^b   Erhun, Feryal ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

All unit quantity discount contracts; Asymmetric demand information; Behavioral operations management; Complex contracts; Contract performance; Experience weighted attraction learning model; Price only contracts; Supply chain efficiency

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; COMPLEX CONTRACTS; CONTRACT PERFORMANCE; DEMAND INFORMATION; EXPERIENCE-WEIGHTED ATTRACTION LEARNING MODEL; PRICE-ONLY CONTRACTS; QUANTITY-DISCOUNT CONTRACT; SUPPLY CHAIN EFFICIENCY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMMERCE; COSTS; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; PROFITABILITY; SALES; SUPPLY CHAINS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79954508925     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1318     Document Type: Article

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