A firm that deals with a short life-cycle product needs to make strategic supply chain decisions such as capacity planning and initial marketing decisions such as advertising well in advance under uncertain future demand. The firm initially can only generate a set of demand scenarios and provide...

In this paper we explore the effect of environmental regulations and costs of greening on firms. Our problem deals with the case of a single firm, a duopoly and the case of cooperation between them. We use these market settings to study the pricing and greening decision of players under...

We consider the problem of a single manufacturer who sells its products to a single retailer. The manufacturer puts in some effort for greening its operations, and the retailer also puts in a corresponding greening effort in retailing the product. Their respective greening efforts are considered...

Environmental consciousness has become increasingly important in present times, as evident by the examples from both everyday life and business practices. In the manufacturing sector, the efforts to reduce the impact of environmentally harmful activities have collectively been labeled as green...