We study competition between an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and an independently operating remanufacturer (IO). Different from the existing literature, the OEM and IO compete not only for selling their products but also for collecting returned products (cores) through their acquisition...

In this paper, we investigate the effect of remanufacturing on capacity and production decisions. Inspired by the situation for a specific car company, we analyze a two-period model with manufacturing in both periods and the option in the second period to remanufacture products that are...