Quality design and environmental implications of green consumerism in remanufacturing》.pdf

Int. J. Production Economics 162 (2015) 55–69 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Int. J. Production Economics journal homepage: /locate/ijpe Quality design and environmental implications of green consumerism in remanufacturing Wenjun Gu a, Dilip Chhajed b, Nicholas C. Petruzzi b, Baris Yalabik c,n a Department of Managerial Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA b Department of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820 USA c School of Management, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We study quality design and the environmental consequences of green consumerism in a remanufacturing Received 28 February 2014 context. Specifically, a firm has the option to design a non-remanufacturable or a remanufacturable product Accepted 30 December 2014 and to specify a corresponding quality, and the design choices affect both the production costs and consumer Available online 7 January 2015 valuations associated with the product. On the cost side, remanufacturable products cost more to produce Keywords: originally, but less to remanufacture, than non-remanufacturable products cost to produce. Analogously, on Product design the consumer side, remanufacturable products are valued more, but remanufactured products are valued Quality less, than non-remanufacturable pr