Speed-quality trade-offs in a dynamic model

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 104-118

  Kostami, Vasiliki ^a   Rajagopalan, Sampath ^b  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming; Quality management; Queuing theory; Service operations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893920992     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.2013.0458     Document Type: Article

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