Lifecycle pricing for installed base management with constrained capacity and remanufacturing

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 236-252

  Robotis, Andreas ^a   Bhattacharya, Shantanu ^b   Van Wassenhove, Luk N ^c  

^a AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE   (Greece)

^b INSEAD   (Singapore)

^c INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

installed base management; lifecycle pricing; operational leasing; product service bundle; remanufacturing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859098537     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2011.001262.x     Document Type: Article

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