Managing Consumer Returns in a Competitive Environment

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Management Sciences

• Publication date

  2011-02-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1287/mnsc.1100.1274
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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