Pricing decisions during inter-generational product transition

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-28

  Li, Hongmin ^a   Graves, Stephen C ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

dynamic pricing; multinomial logit model; new product introduction; product transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862961908     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2010.01216.x     Document Type: Article

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