Title:
The Effect of Competition on Recovery Strategies (ed.2)

dc.contributor.author Ferguson, Mark E. en_US
dc.contributor.author Toktay, L. Beril en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2005-08-01T17:41:03Z
dc.date.available 2005-08-01T17:41:03Z
dc.date.issued 2005-07 en_US
dc.description.abstract Manufacturers often face a choice of whether to recover the value in their end-of-life products through remanufacturing. In many cases, firms choose not to remanufacture, as they are (rightly) concerned that the remanufactured product will cannibalize sales of the higher-margin new product. However, such a strategy may backfire for manufacturers operating in industries where their end-of-life products (cell phones, tires, computers, automotive parts, etc) are attractive to third-party remanufacturers, who may seriously cannibalize sales of the original manufacturer. In this paper, we develop models to support a manufacturer's recovery strategy in the face of a competitive threat on the remanufactured product market. We first analyze the competition between new and remanufactured products produced by a monopolist manufacturer and identify conditions under which the firm would choose not to remanufacture its products. We then characterize the potential profit loss due to external remanufacturing competition and analyze two entry-deterrent strategies: remanufacturing and preemptive collection. We find that a firm may choose to remanufacture or preemptively collect its used products to deter entry, even when the firm would not have chosen to do so under a pure monopoly environment. Finally, we discuss conditions under which each strategy is more beneficial. en_US
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dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7077
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.relation.isreplacedby http://hdl.handle.net/1853/7429
dc.relation.replaces http://hdl.handle.net/1853/3928
dc.subject Remanufacturing en_US
dc.subject Competition en_US
dc.subject Pricing en_US
dc.subject Entry-deterrent strategies en_US
dc.title The Effect of Competition on Recovery Strategies (ed.2) en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Working Paper
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.corporatename Scheller College of Business
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