Manufacturing vs. remanufacturing: study and analysis of a green supply chain in Japan and Europe

In this study, we analyse the side effects of the remanufacturing process, which are the cannibalisation effect, negative, and the market expansion, positive, when both new and remanufactured goods are sold in the market. This research is conducted analysing a manufacturing Japanese firm which produces printers and whose production process is a hybrid system of manufacturing and remanufacturing. In the first part of our study, we give a...