Creating reciprocal value through operational transparency

Management Science

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1673-1695

  Buell, Ryan W ^a   Kim, Tami ^a   Tsay, Chia Jung ^b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavior; Inventory production; Labor; Operational transparency; Organizational studies; Service design

Indexed keywords

PERSONNEL; SALES;

BEHAVIOR; CONSUMER PERCEPTION; CUSTOMER PERCEPTIONS; INVENTORY PRODUCTIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES; POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOP; SERVICE DESIGN;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 85020471940     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2015.2411     Document Type: Article

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