Should Start-up Companies Be Cautious? Inventory Policies Which Maximise Survival Probabilities

DOI10.1287/mnsc.48.9.1161.176zbMath1232.90264OpenAlexW2149640207MaRDI QIDQ3114807

Robert B. Johnston, John M. Betts, Lyn C. Thomas, Thomas W. Archibald

Publication date: 19 February 2012

Published in: Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/2f89d3f51d44d0a2ddfeafcdd381f4ed816fdee7

zbMATH Keywords

Markov decision processesinventorystart-up firms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05) Case-oriented studies in operations research (90B90) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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