About inventory models, a concern is 'often made [that] any resemblances between the models constructed and reality are … purely coincidental.' One set of factors not usually considered in textbook models of inventory decisions is suggested by … affect inventory decisions, and how? I study four hypotheses. The first is that the market could be a side-show, with no …

Among practitioners, inventory is often thought to be the root of all evil in operations management. The stock market … hates it, the media abhors it, and managers have come to fear it. But high inventory levels can also be the result of … strategic buying and high-availability strategies. The problem is that when the market sees lots of inventory, it cannot tell …

” in their pricing processes. This builds on some of the recent economic work on the costs of price adjustment. To do this … enhance the effectiveness of the pricing processes within their firms. We discovered at least three distinct types of … investments that managers at these firms made to price more effectively, which we term as the three capitals of pricing - human …

This paper develops a model of pricing and advertising in a matching environment with capacity constrained sellers …

competition. Where firms have some market power, as in the market for information goods, we expect discriminatory pricing to … well as economic efficiency, and may emerge as the principal pricing method for a large number of goods and services. …

how this responsive pricing puts control of network service back where it belongs: with the users. …