Fairness in selling to the newsvendor

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2002-2022

  Wu, Xiaole ^a   Niederhoff, Julie A ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fairness; incentives and contracts; modeling behavioral preferences; supply chain efficiency; supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925646998     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12222     Document Type: Review

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