Today's common business practice of extracting non-renewable raw materials from the earth, processing them, turning them into products, selling the products to customers, and then having the customers dispose of the products in a landfill or through incineration is not sustainable. Eventually,...

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...