Effects of consumers' uncertain valuation-for-quality in a distribution channel

DOI10.1007/S10479-020-03847-7MaRDI QIDQ6066950zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Xiaoqing Fan, Jianxiong Zhang, Guowei Zhu

Publication date 16 November 2023

Published in Annals of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S10479-020-03847-7

zbMATH Keywords

consignment contractcontract preferenceinformativenessproduct qualityuncertain valuationwholesale price contract

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05) Transportation, logistics and supply chain management (90B06) Production models (90B30) Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26)

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