Committed versus contingent pricing under competition

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1919-1936

  Wang, Zizhuo ^a   Hu, Ming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

committed pricing; competition; contingent pricing; demand uncertainty; revenue management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925612645     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12202     Document Type: Article

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