Remanufacturing in Asia: Location choice and outsourcing

International Journal of Logistics Management

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 20-34

  Lu, Qing ^a   Goh, Mark ^a   Garg, Miti ^b   De Souza, Robert ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Case study; Location choice; Remanufacturing; Third party remanufacturers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903132555     PISSN: 09574093     EISSN: 17586550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJLM-10-2012-0125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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