When to carry eccentric products? optimal retail assortment under consumer returns

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 877-892

  Alptekinoǧlu, Aydin ^a   Grasas, Alex ^b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Spain)

Author keywords

assortment planning; consumer returns; nested logit; product variety; retail operations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900488388     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12081     Document Type: Article

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