Evaluation of market scenarios in automobile reverse logistics: A system dynamics approach

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 437-460

  Ravi, V ^a   Shankar, Ravi ^b   Tripathi, Nitin Kumar ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^c ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Automobile industry; Policy experimentation; Reverse logistics; Scenario building; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054694762     PISSN: 17427967     EISSN: 17427975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2011.043104     Document Type: Article

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