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作者：Atasu, Atalay; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.; Sarvary, Miklos
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Product 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 conditions. It is shown that the right policy would (i) make producers responsible for their own wast...
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作者：Pagell, Mark; Gobeli, David
作者单位：York University - Canada; Oregon State University
摘要：Managers are increasingly faced with pressure to think not just about profits, but also about their organization's environmental and social performance. This research provides a first examination of operational managers' experiences with and attitudes about employee well-being and environmental issues, how these factors impact employee well-being and environmental performance, and how the three performance measures interrelate. We use violations of Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
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作者：Lacourbe, Paul; Loch, Christoph H.; Kavadias, Stylianos
作者单位：ESSEC Business School; INSEAD Business School; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：This paper examines the optimal product portfolio positioning for a monopolist firm in a market where consumers exhibit vertical differentiation for product performance and horizontal differentiation for product feature. Our key results are as follows: (i) Variable costs drive vertical differentiation. In the presence of significant volume-dependent manufacturing costs, the optimal portfolio contains a mix of vertically and horizontally differentiated products and an increase in the variable c...
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作者：Subramanian, Ravi; Gupta, Sudheer; Talbot, Brian
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Simon Fraser University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：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 in a durable product supply chain. We model a manufacturer supplying a remanufacturable product to a customer over multiple periods. The manufacturer invests in two design attributes of the product that ...
