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Production Planning & Control
The Management of Operations
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The influence of decision patterns of inventory control on the bullwhip effect based on a simulation game of a production network

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Pages 666-677 | Received 17 Dec 2007, Accepted 10 Feb 2009, Published online: 11 Oct 2010

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