Supply chain network sustainability under competition and frequencies of activities from production to distribution

Computational Management Science

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 397-422

  Nagurney, Anna ^a,b   Yu, Min ^c   Floden, Jonas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity frequencies; Distribution; Emissions; Game theory; Nash equilibrium; Networks; Production; Storage; Supply chains; Sustainability; Variational inequalities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889043817     PISSN: 1619697X     EISSN: 16196988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10287-013-0190-6     Document Type: Article

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