Retail inventory: Managing the canary in the coal mine

California Management Review

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 55-76

  Gaur, Vishal ^a   Kesavan, Saravanan ^b   Raman, Ananth ^c  

^a SAS Institute Inc   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Inventory Management; Retailing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894590285     PISSN: 00081256     EISSN: 21628564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cmr.2014.56.2.55     Document Type: Article

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