Supply Chain Design and Carbon Penalty: Monopoly vs. Monopolistic Competition

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1494-1508

  Park, Seung Jae ^a   Cachon, Gérard P ^b   Lai, Guoming ^c   Seshadri, Sridhar ^d  

^a Texas AandM University Central Texas ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (India)

Author keywords

carbon tax; monopolistic competition; policy making; supply chain design; sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940959736     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12373     Document Type: Article

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