Electronic price-testing scheme for fashion retailing with information updating

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 396-406

  Choi, Tsan Ming ^a   Chow, Pui Sze ^a   Xiao, Tiaojun ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Information update; Mean risk; Price testing; Retailing; VaR

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFORMATION; BERNOULLI PROCESS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; EFFICIENT FRONTIER; ELECTRONIC RETAILING; EXPECTED VALUES; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES; INFORMATION UPDATES; INFORMATION UPDATING; INTERNET PRICING; MEAN-RISK; OPTIMAL SAMPLING; PRICING POLICY; RETAILING; SAMPLING INFORMATION; VALUE AT RISK; VAR;

INTERNET; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; VALUE ENGINEERING;

COSTS;

EID: 84865688956     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2012.06.021     Document Type: Article

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