Capacity competition of make-to-order firms

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 187-194

  Chen, Hong ^a   Wan, Yat Wah ^b  

^a Center for AI and Institutions at CKGSB   (China)

^b NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Capacity competition; Long run duopoly; Make to order firms; Nash equilibrium; Time and price competition

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; FUNCTIONS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; SERVERS; THEOREM PROVING;

CAPACITY COMPETITION; LONG-RUN DUOPOLY; MAKE-TO-ORDER FIRMS; NASH EQUILIBRIUM; TIME AND PRICE COMPETITION;

QUEUEING NETWORKS;

EID: 9644274216     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2002.08.001     Document Type: Article

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