Improving humanitarian operations through technology-enabled collaboration

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1002-1014

  Ergun, Özlem ^a   Gui, Luyi ^a   Heier Stamm, Jessica L ^b   Keskinocak, Pinar ^a   Swann, Julie ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

Author keywords

cooperative game theory; coordination; cost allocation mechanisms; humanitarian operations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902539874     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12107     Document Type: Article

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