TAB: Take Academia Back!

Efficient Take-Back Legislation

P roduct and waste take-back is becoming more regulated by countries to protect the environment. Such regulation puts an economic burden on firms, while creating fairness concerns and potentially even missing its primary target: environmental benefits. This research discusses the economic and environmental impacts of extended producer responsibility type of legislation and identifies efficiency...

Take Me Back: Validating the Wayback Machine

Although fields such as e-commerce, information systems, and computer-mediated communication (CMC) acknowledge the importance of validity, validating research tools or measures in these domains seems the exception rather than the rule. This article extends the concept of validation to one of an emerging genre of web-based tools that provide new measures, the Wayback Machine (WM). Drawing in par...

Platune - Take Back the Data Center!

It was the worst ever. Month-end was here and they had laid siege to us. Egad! Now I know how they felt at Dunkirk. We fell back to the machine room. They charged, lobbing jobs at us at horrific rates. “Who is it,” cried management? “It’s the ad hoc users,” we replied, “and a cohort of developers on our flank!” Management turned and ran. “O.K. men,” I rallied. “It’s up to us now. We’re going to...

Reverse-Logistics Strategy for Product Take-Back

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