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In the area of reverse logistics, remanufacturing has been proven to be a valuable option for product recovery. In many … the returned product. Although several authors study how the different lot sizes in a remanufacturing system shall be … determined, they do not consider the specificity of the remanufacturing process itself. Thus, the disassembly operations which …
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Background: The remanufacturing plan of perfect cost makes reference to the remanufacturing plan of an optimal solution … of the economic lot-sizing problem with remanufacturing (ELSR). In this paper, we address the problem of determining the … quantities of the remanufacturing plan of perfect cost in an independent way. Results: Assuming that the periods where …
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The remanufacturing industry as a whole and the automotive sector in particular have, over the years, proven to be …, remanufacturing is associated with complicating characteristics, not least to mention the process of core acquisition. The automotive … industry is one of the earliest adapters of remanufacturing. Parts like engines, brake calipers and servo pumps are common …
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The paper examines the determinants that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany in a multivariate context by using data from the Mannheimer Innovations Panel 1993, which was part of the Community Innovation Survey. The objective is to analyse the general...
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This paper investigates the companies' behavioural response to information-based environmental policies. We perform a panel analysis for 39 big companies in 16 countries, in 3 polluting industries (oil & gas, chemicals, power generation) over a 5- year period (1993-1997) to check whether...
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Spontaneous adoption of cleaner technologies can be slowed down by various sources of inertia. Investment irreversibility, uncertainty about the actual private benefits, and the expectation of declining adoption costs due to the diffusion of environmental innovation, may involve a timing of...
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What factors shape environmental policies across Europe? In order to answer this question most economists would probably adopt a Public Choice approach. This approach has explained some aspects of environmental policies that exist in a similar fashion across Europe convincingly. But why do many...
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This paper analyses two aspects of environmental regulations triggered by ecoinnovations. First, whether there are long term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the environmental benefit of the innovations. To answer...
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) this analysis provides an environment discussing sustainability in an appropriate inasmuch dynamic way. The paper makes … out to be a pure effort tax in the long run. (4) Strong resource sustainability is not possible, given cost reducing …
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This book provides novel and in-depth perspectives on evaluating environment and sustainability issues in developing …
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