sustainability is through operations management. Sustainable operations hold the key to increased profitability and effective … reuse is remanufacturing. Legislation trends, as evidenced in the European Union, are forcing manufacturers to take back and … put products back into the market, after remanufacturing. The remanufacturing may be done by either the manufacturer or a …

Manufacturers often face a choice of whether to recover the value in their end-of-life productsthrough remanufacturing … remanufacturing competition andanalyze two entry-deterrent strategies: remanufacturing and preemptive collection. We findthat a firm …

product recovery and remanufacturing strategy for a firm that can offer trade-in rebates to achieve price discrimination. We … also consider the effect of potential entry of third-party remanufacturers on the firm's recovery and remanufacturing …

remanufacturing. Our model constructs are based on detailed interviews with top managers from two leading competitors in the medium …

sustainability. An important class of such "reverse" goods flows has to do with remanufacturing (reman), which refers to activities … associated with product life-cycle demand and core supply), 2) difficulty with capacity planning for remanufacturing (while … remanufacturing activities. These difficulties are mostly attributable to limited visibility and higher levels of uncertainty in …

The paper describes three analyses to examine differences in construction company POT profitability between (1 …) different financial years, and (2) different sizes of companies. In the first analysis, the aggregated profitability of a sample …. The size (turnover) of companies however was significantly positive correlated with profitability. The second analysis …

firms which grow without first securing high levels of profitability tend to be less successful compared to firms that first … secure high profitability at low growth. Empirical tests using two large, longitudinal data sets confirm that the profitable … low growth firms are both more likely to reach the desirable state of high growth and high profitability and have a …

Growth and profitability are often essential parts of the overall managerial goals of firms. High growth can be seen as … an indicator of success and as a mean for achieving competitive advantage and higher profitability. But high growth can … also lead to a number of managerial and organisational challenges, that may affect the profitability negatively. The aim of …