Based on the proposition that leasing is environmentally superior to selling, some firms have adopted a leasing strategy and others promote their existing leasing programs as environmentally superior to "green" their image. The argument is that because a leasing firm retains ownership of the...

Using the classic market segmentation approach, we analyze the impact of a firm's remanufacturing operations on its component commonality decision. We find that the decision to make a component common or not may be reversed with the inclusion of remanufacturing, and this reversal is influenced...

Based on the proposition that leasing is environmentally superior to selling, some firms have adopted a leasing strategy and others promote their existing leasing programs as environmentally superior to "green" their image. The argument is that since a leasing firm retains ownership of the...