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How Does a Retailer's Service Plan Affect a Manufacturer's Warranty?
Jiang, Bo; Zhang, Xubing - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 4, pp. 727-740
A service plan is a type of optional warranty beyond manufacturers' base warranties that retailers offer to consumers. In this paper, we examine how a service plan affects the role played by a manufacturer's base warranty. Analysis shows that when consumers can assess product quality (i.e., the...
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Price competition and store competition: Store brands vs. national brand
Choi, Sungchul; Fredj, Karima - In: European Journal of Operational Research 225 (2013) 1, pp. 166-178
This paper studies pricing strategies in a market channel composed of one national brand manufacturer and two retailers who, each, carry their own store brand and a national brand products. The model accounts for product competition between store brands and the national brand products, as well...
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The Introduction and Performance of Store Brands
Raju, Jagmohan S.; Sethuraman, Raj; Dhar, Sanjay K. - In: Management Science 41 (1995) 6, pp. 957-978
We present an analytical framework for understanding what makes a product category more conducive for store brand introduction. We also investigate market characteristics that help explain differences in store brand market share across product categories. Our findings suggest that the...
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“Bricks vs. Clicks”: The impact of manufacturer encroachment with a dealer leasing and selling of durable goods
Xiong, Yu; Yan, Wei; Fernandes, Kiran; Xiong, Zhong-Kai; … - In: European Journal of Operational Research 217 (2012) 1, pp. 75-83
In durable goods markets, many brand name manufacturers, including IBM, HP, Epson, and Lenovo, have adopted dual-channel supply chains to market their products. There is scant literature, however, addressing the product durability and its impact on players’ optimal strategies in a dual-channel...
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Don’t forget your supplier when remanufacturing
Xiong, Yu; Zhou, Yu; Li, Gendao; Chan, Hing-Kai; Xiong, … - In: European Journal of Operational Research 230 (2013) 1, pp. 15-25
A popular assumption in the current literature on remanufacturing is that the whole new product is produced by an … these players significantly impacts the economic and environmental implications of remanufacturing. In our model, the non …, although the integrated manufacturer always benefits from remanufacturing, the remanufacturing opportunity may constitute a …
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OEM product design in a price competition with remanufactured product
Wu, Cheng-Han - In: Omega 41 (2013) 2, pp. 287-298
An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) produces new products and often faces a dilemma when determining the level of interchangeability in its product design. The interchangeability is considered as a degree to which the product can be disassembled without force, and thus an increasing degree...
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Analysis for strategy of closed-loop supply chain with dual recycling channel
Huang, Min; Song, Min; Lee, Loo Hay; Ching, Wai Ki - In: International Journal of Production Economics 144 (2013) 2, pp. 510-520
This paper investigates optimal strategies of a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) with dual recycling channel, within which the manufacturer sells products via the retailer in the forward supply chain, while the retailer and the third party competitively collect used products in the reverse supply...
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Price and service competition between new and remanufactured products in a two-echelon supply chain
Wu, Cheng-Han - In: International Journal of Production Economics 140 (2012) 1, pp. 496-507
manufacturer invests extra effort in facilitating the remanufacturing process. In this study, we identify the equilibrium …
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Product-design and pricing strategies with remanufacturing
Wu, Cheng-Han - In: European Journal of Operational Research 222 (2012) 2, pp. 204-215
remanufacturing. We first formulate a two-period model to investigate the OEM’s product-design strategy and the remanufacturer …, we show the thresholds that determine whether remanufacturing is constrained by collection, the thresholds for the …
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OPTIMAL SOLUTION STRUCTURE FOR MULTI-PERIOD PRODUCTION PLANNING WITH RETURNED PRODUCTS REMANUFACTURING
LI, YONGJIAN; ZHANG, JIHONG; CHEN, JIAN; CAI, XIAOQIANG - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR) 27 (2010) 05, pp. 629-648
products remanufacturing. In this paper, we discuss the optimal decision for a joint manufacturing and remanufacturing system … in a multi-period horizon, including manufacturing decision, remanufacturing and disposal decisions of the returned …
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