Advance Selling in a Supply Chain Under Uncertain Supply and Demand

Soo-Haeng Cho
Soo-Haeng Cho
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Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
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Christopher S. Tang
Christopher S. Tang
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Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095
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Soo-Haeng Cho

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Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213

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Christopher S. Tang

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Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095

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Published Online:1 Mar 2013https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.1120.0423

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Received:January 09, 2012
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