Quantity flexibility contract in the presence of discount incentive

Decision Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 49-79

  Chung, Wenming ^a   Talluri, Srinivas ^b   Narasimhan, Ram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory Risk; Price Only Contract; Profit Split; Quantity Flexibility Contract; Supply Chain Coordination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893132233     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/deci.12058     Document Type: Article

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