Comparison as incentive: Newsvendor decisions in a social context

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 303-313

  Avci, Buket ^a   Loutfi, Zeina ^a   Mihm, Jürgen ^a   Belavina, Elena ^a   Keck, Steffen ^a  

^a INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

newsvendor; organizing purchasing; purchasing; social comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894504363     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2012.01354.x     Document Type: Article

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