Decentralized inventory sharing with asymmetric information

Operations Research

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1528-1538

  Yan, Xinghao ^a   Zhao, Hui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Coordination; Decentralized inventory sharing; Incentive compatibility; Information sharing

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION; COORDINATION; DECENTRALIZED INVENTORY SHARING; INCENTIVE COMPATIBILITY; INFORMATION SHARING;

MANUFACTURE; PROFITABILITY; SALES; STATISTICS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 84855298427     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1110.0953     Document Type: Article

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