Consignment or wholesale: Retailer and supplier preferences and incentives for compromise

Omega (United Kingdom)

Volumn 49, Issue , 2014, Pages 93-106

  De Matta, Renato E ^a   Lowe, Timothy J ^a   Zhang, Dengfeng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b PingAn Bank   (China)

Author keywords

Inventory; Pricing; Supply chain management; Supply contracts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903720295     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2014.05.011     Document Type: Article

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