Ferrer, Geraldo; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M. - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 1, pp. 15-26
We study a firm that makes new products in the first period and uses returned cores to offer remanufactured products, along with new products, in future periods. We introduce the monopoly environment in two-period and multiperiod scenarios to identify thresholds in remanufacturing operations....