Thinking outside 'the box': Designing a packaging take-back system

California Management Review

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 105-119

  Matthews, H Scott ^a  

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EID: 1642282593     PISSN: 00081256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/41166213     Document Type: Review

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1. Quantum's hard disk drive business was sold to Maxtor Corporation in 2001.
2. This movement towards a highly competitive, lower profit margin business began in the late 1990s and continues today. There was a fair amount of market consolidation (including the sale of Quantum to Maxtor) as well as the privatization of another key manufacturer, Seagate.
3. See J.R. Stock, "Reverse Logistics," Council of Logistics Management, Oak Brook, IL, 1992.
4. As one example, see Markus Klausner and Chris T. Hendrickson, "Reverse-Logistics Strategy for Product Take-Back," Interfaces, 30/3 (May/June 2000): 156-165.
5. For more information on EIO-LCA, see C.T. Hendrickson, A. Horvath, S. Joshi, and L.B. Lave, "Economic Input-Output Models for Environmental Life Cycle Assessment," Environmental Science & Technology, 32/7 (April 1998) pp. 184A-191A; A. Horvath, C.T. Hendrickson, L. Lave, F.C. McMichael, and T. Wu, "Toxic Emissions Indices for Green Design and Inventory," Environmental Science & Technology, 29/2 (February 1995): 86-90; L.B. Lave, E. Cobas, C.T. Hendrickson, and F. McMichael, "Using Input-Output Analysis to Estimate Economy-Wide Discharges," Environmental Science & Technology, 29/9 (September 1995): 420A-426A. For more details on I-O, see R. Miller and P. Blair, Input-Output Analysis (Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, 1985), Chapter 7.
6. For more information on EIO-LCA, see C.T. Hendrickson, A. Horvath, S. Joshi, and L.B. Lave, "Economic Input-Output Models for Environmental Life Cycle Assessment," Environmental Science & Technology, 32/7 (April 1998) pp. 184A-191A; A. Horvath, C.T. Hendrickson, L. Lave, F.C. McMichael, and T. Wu, "Toxic Emissions Indices for Green Design and Inventory," Environmental Science & Technology, 29/2 (February 1995): 86-90; L.B. Lave, E. Cobas, C.T. Hendrickson, and F. McMichael, "Using Input-Output Analysis to Estimate Economy-Wide Discharges," Environmental Science & Technology, 29/9 (September 1995): 420A-426A. For more details on I-O, see R. Miller and P. Blair, Input-Output Analysis (Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, 1985), Chapter 7.
7. For more information on EIO-LCA, see C.T. Hendrickson, A. Horvath, S. Joshi, and L.B. Lave, "Economic Input-Output Models for Environmental Life Cycle Assessment," Environmental Science & Technology, 32/7 (April 1998) pp. 184A-191A; A. Horvath, C.T. Hendrickson, L. Lave, F.C. McMichael, and T. Wu, "Toxic Emissions Indices for Green Design and Inventory," Environmental Science & Technology, 29/2 (February 1995): 86-90; L.B. Lave, E. Cobas, C.T. Hendrickson, and F. McMichael, "Using Input-Output Analysis to Estimate Economy-Wide Discharges," Environmental Science & Technology, 29/9 (September 1995): 420A-426A. For more details on I-O, see R. Miller and P. Blair, Input-Output Analysis (Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, 1985), Chapter 7.
8. For more information on EIO-LCA, see C.T. Hendrickson, A. Horvath, S. Joshi, and L.B. Lave, "Economic Input-Output Models for Environmental Life Cycle Assessment," Environmental Science & Technology, 32/7 (April 1998) pp. 184A-191A; A. Horvath, C.T. Hendrickson, L. Lave, F.C. McMichael, and T. Wu, "Toxic Emissions Indices for Green Design and Inventory," Environmental Science & Technology, 29/2 (February 1995): 86-90; L.B. Lave, E. Cobas, C.T. Hendrickson, and F. McMichael, "Using Input-Output Analysis to Estimate Economy-Wide Discharges," Environmental Science & Technology, 29/9 (September 1995): 420A-426A. For more details on I-O, see R. Miller and P. Blair, Input-Output Analysis (Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, 1985), Chapter 7.
9. Note that actual costs have been disguised due to non-disclosure requirements and proprietary data concerns.
10. For information on input-output models and the application of environmental impacts, see W. Leontief, "Quantitative Input-Output Relations in the Economic System of the United States," Review of Economics and Statistics, 18/3 (August 1936): 105-25; W. Leontief, "Environmental Repercussions and the Economic Structure: An Input-Output Approach," Review of Economics and Statistics, 52/3 (August 1970).
11. For information on input-output models and the application of environmental impacts, see W. Leontief, "Quantitative Input-Output Relations in the Economic System of the United States," Review of Economics and Statistics, 18/3 (August 1936): 105-25; W. Leontief, "Environmental Repercussions and the Economic Structure: An Input-Output Approach," Review of Economics and Statistics, 52/3 (August 1970).
12. Input-output data available from Peter D. Kuhbach and Mark A. Planting, "Annual Input-Output Accounts of the U.S. Economy, 1997," Survey of Current Business (January 2001), pp. 9-43.
13. Clean Washington Center, "Waste Characterization Profile of the Electronics Industry," 〈www.cwc.gov/〉, 1995.