An empirical analysis of price, quality, and incumbency in procurement auctions

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 346-364

  Tunca, Tunay I ^a   Wu, D J ^b   Zhong, Fang Vivian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ZURICH FINANCIAL SERVICES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Auctions and mechanism design; Econometric analysis; Operations strategy; Service operations; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

MACHINE DESIGN; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS;

AUCTIONS AND MECHANISM DESIGNS; ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE AUCTION; OPERATIONS STRATEGIES; PROCUREMENT MECHANISMS; PRODUCTS AND SERVICES; SERVICE OPERATIONS; WINNER DETERMINATION;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84904635751     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.2014.0485     Document Type: Article

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