1 Manufacturer strategies for end - of - life product recovery
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This paper describes seven alternative product recovery strategies that can be pursued by manufacturers. I then develop empirically testable hypotheses based on industrial organization, transaction cost economics, and the resource-based view to predict which strategies are likely to be pursued by different types of companies.
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