How does product recovery affect quality choice?

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 991-1010

  Atasu, Atalay ^a   Souza, Gilvan C ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

quality choice; recycling; remanufacturing; take back legislation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880723934     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2011.01290.x     Document Type: Article

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