Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1143044 | Operations Research Letters | 2012 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
With strategic customers, we find that a decentralized channel may have higher profit than that of a centralized channel. We show that in addition to the double marginalization effect, both customer and firm discounting and retailer competition are also driving factors of the higher decentralized channel profit.
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Authors
Hangjun Yang,