Recent environmental trends, including (1) an expansion of existing command and control directives, (2) the introduction of market-based policy instruments, and (3) the adoption of extended producer responsibility, have created a need for new tools to help managerial decision-making. To address...

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation focuses on the life-cycle environmental performance of products and has significant implications for management theory and practice. In this paper, we examine the influence of EPR policy parameters on product design and coordination incentives...

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...

We characterize the trade-offs among firms' compliance strategies in a market-based program where a regulator interested in controlling emissions from a given set of sources auctions off a fixed number of emissions permits. We model a three-stage game in which firms invest in emissions...