Clickstream data and inventory management: Model and empirical analysis

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 333-347

  Huang, Tingliang ^a   Van Mieghem, Jan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

advance demand information; big data; click tracking; dynamic programming; econometric analysis; empirical research; inventory theory and control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896399858     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12046     Document Type: Article

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