Pricing and quality decisions and financial incentives for sustainable product design with recycled material content under price leadership

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 147, Issue PART C, 2014, Pages 666-677

  Chen, Chialin ^a,b   Liu, Lucy Qian ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Financial incentive; New product development; Price leadership; Recycling; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

DESIGN FOR RECYCLING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES; EQUILIBRIUM PRICING; FINANCIAL INCENTIVES; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRICE LEADERSHIP; RECYCLABLE MATERIAL; SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT DESIGNS;

COMMERCE; COMMINUTION; COMPETITION; FORESTRY; INDUSTRY; PRODUCT DESIGN; RECYCLING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COSTS;

EID: 84889888788     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2013.04.016     Document Type: Article

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