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.

I. Qualifications I am Professor of Economics, College of Letters and Science, and Professor of Technology Management, College of Engineering, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I am past director of the M.A. and Ph.D. programs and past Chairman of the Economics Department. I am an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. I have been a visiting professor at Harvard, th...

1 Max Wertheimer Minerva Center for Cognitive Studies, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel 2 Computer Laboratory for Experimental Research, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, 02163, USA; E-Mail: [email protected] 3 Department of Economics, 308 Littauer, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; E-Mail: [email protected] 4 Harvard Business School, 441 Bak...

Michael Lim, Mark S. Daskin, Achal Bassamboo, Sunil Chopra 1 Department of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820 [email protected] 2 Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 [email protected] 3 Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Northwestern Universi...

Jan Kinne 1,2,* and Bernd Resch 2,3 ID 1 Department of Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics, Centre for European Economic Research, L7 1, 68161 Mannheim, Germany 2 Department of Geoinformatics—Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria; [email protected] 3 Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA * Correspondence: [email protected]; T...

Stochastic evolutionary game dynamics in hierarchy are very popular in economics and in management sciences. This study extends the model of stochastic evolutionary game dynamics. This paper highlights hierarchy selection model and we show that the hierarchy selection games are more stable without structures in this paper. Furthermore, an example in industrial organization is given to rationall...

1Laboratory of Algorithms and Technologies for Networks Analysis National Research University Higher School of Economics 136 Rodionova street, Niznhy Novgorod 603093, Russia 2Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida 303 Weil Hall, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA 3Department of Operations Management & Operations Research, University of Groningen Nettelbosje 2, 9747 AE ...

Jau-Chuan Ke, Chia-Huang Wu and Zhe George Zhang Department of Applied Statistics National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan Department of Industrial Engineering and Management National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Department of Decision Science, College of Business and Economics Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9077, USA (Received Octo...

In positive systems, inputs, state variables and outputs take only non-negative values. Examples of positive systems are industrial processes involving chemical reactors, heat exchangers and distillation columns, storage systems, compartmental systems, or water and atmospheric pollution models. A variety of models revealing the behaviour of positive linear systems can be found in engineering, m...

In positive systems, the inputs, state variables and outputs take only non-negative values. Examples of positive systems are industrial processes involving chemical reactors, heat exchangers and distillation columns, storage systems, compartmental systems, or water and atmospheric pollution models. A variety of models having positive linear system behaviour can be found in engineering, manageme...