Observation bias: The impact of demand censoring on newsvendor level and adjustment behavior

Management Science

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1334-1345

  Rudi, Nils ^a   Drake, David ^b  

^a INSEAD   (Singapore)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral operations; Decision analysis History; Inventory management

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY CONTROL;

BEHAVIORAL OPERATIONS; DECISION MAKERS; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; NEWSVENDORS; ORDER QUANTITY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84900445898     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2013.1825     Document Type: Article

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