Trade credit or vertical merger strategy for financial constrained retailer in a supply chain with asymmetric competing retailers

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Issue		RAIRO-Oper. Res. Volume 55, Number 3, May-June 2021


Page(s)		1617 - 1641
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/ro/2021074
Published online		17 June 2021

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