Competitive and collaborative quality and warranty management in supply chains

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 129-144

  Dai, Yue ^a   Zhou, Sean X ^b   Xu, Yifan ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Nash equilibrium; product quality; supply chain coordination; warranty period; warranty dependent demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862960586     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2011.01217.x     Document Type: Review

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