Competing in Product and Service: A Product Life-Cycle Model

DOI10.1287/mnsc.43.4.535zbMath0888.90067OpenAlexW2082769772MaRDI QIDQ4367184

Morris A. Cohen, Seungjin Whang

Publication date: 25 November 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.43.4.535

zbMATH Keywords

after-sales serviceservice managementmultiechelon inventoryproduct life-cycle model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Queues and service in operations research (90B22) Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05)

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