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...

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs typically hold the producer - a single actor defined by the regulator - responsible for the environmental impacts of end-of-life products. This is despite emphasis on the need to involve all actors in the supply chain in order to best achieve the...

We argue that three environmental trends have created a need for new tools to help managerial decision-making: [i.] an expansion of existing command and control directives; [ii.] the introduction of market-based policy instruments; and [iii.] the adoption of Extended Producer Responsibility. To...