We examine the strategic interplay between a buyer's design decision and the ensuing competition between suppliers in a three-tier closed-loop supply chain setting with significant recycling considerations. The nature of the engineering design decision in our research entails choice of integral...

Motivated by the varied green product line extension strategies implemented by leading manufacturers in several industries (e.g., footwear and other apparel), we consider the price and quality optimization (i.e., product line design) problem of a monopolist selling (at most) two product...

Motivated by interactions with a major player in the aerospace industry, we consider the relationship between a supplier of specialty material forgings and a buyer that manufactures airplane components by extensively machining down these forgings as per component design specifications. Due to...