Complexity as a contract design factor: A human-to-human experimental study

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 269-284

  Kalkanci, Basak ^a   Chen, Kay Yut ^b   Erhun, Feryal ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

all unit quantity discount contracts; contract performance; human to Human interactions; price only contracts; supply chain efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894476715     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12067     Document Type: Article

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