
To compete in today's volatile market with rapidly changing consumer tastes and erce competition, companies in the manufacturing and service industries are - ploying new mechanisms to increase sales, market shares, and pro ts. As an - fective mechanism to segment a market comprising...

Part I-Rational consumer behavior: endogenous decision making mechanisms.- Cheap talk in operations: role of intentional vagueness.- Product design in a market with satisficing customers.- The effect of assortment rotation on consumer choice, and its impact on competition.- Models...

To compete in today's volatile market with rapidly changing consumer tastes and erce competition, companies in the manufacturing and service industries are - ploying new mechanisms to increase sales, market shares, and pro ts. As an - fective mechanism to segment a market comprising...