The impact of information sharing on supply chain performance under asymmetric information

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 410-425

  Inderfurth, Karl ^a   Sadrieh, Abdolkarim ^a   Voigt, Guido ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cheap talk; experimental economics; principal agent theory; screening contracts; supply chain coordination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875170812     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2012.01372.x     Document Type: Article

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