Managing downstream competition via capacity allocation

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 426-446

  Chen, Fangruo ^a   Li, Jianbin ^b   Zhang, Hanqin ^c,d  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

capacity allocation; equilibrium analysis; lexicographic mechanism; proportional mechanism; retail competition; supply chains; wholesale pricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875163746     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2012.01373.x     Document Type: Article

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