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Extended Producer Responsibility: A Systematic Review and Innovative Proposals for Improving Sustainability
Ya-Jun Cai,Tsan-Ming Choi +1 more
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A systematic review on EPR from an operations management perspective finds some EPR-related innovative measures and proposals in five areas, namely policy, product, process, supply chain, and technology.Abstract:
Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is an environmental policy introduced in Europe, back in the 1990s. Under EPR, a producer's responsibility for its products is extended beyond the consumption stage, and the producer has to meet the targets of collection and recycling rates imposed by the EPR legislation. Motivated by the importance of this topic, in this paper, we conduct a systematic review on EPR from an operations management perspective. To be specific, we categorize the EPR literature, for both e-wastes and non-e-wastes, by research methodologies (qualitative case studies, quantitative empirical research, and analytical modeling studies) and discuss the respective findings. In addition to systematically exploring the state-of-the-art research within the context of EPR, we investigate pertinent issues, such as the implementation of EPR, EPR management systems, supply chain management under EPR, and EPR-related operations (such as end-of-life product management and design for recyclability). We highlight some EPR-related innovative measures and proposals in five areas, namely policy, product, process, supply chain, and technology. Finally, we discuss future research and propose a concluding picture of how EPR can help establish innovative operational measures to improve sustainabilityread more
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Omni-channel management in the new retailing era: A systematic review and future research agenda
Ya Jun Cai,Chris K.Y. Lo +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conduct a systematic review by adopting citation network analysis (CNA), which helps identify seven independent and interdependent research domains, which depict (or constitute) a whole picture of omni-channel management.
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A United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals perspective for sustainable textile and apparel supply chain management
Ya-Jun Cai,Tsan-Ming Choi +1 more
TL;DR: Examination of the literature as well as industrial practices shows that the current sustainable operations in TA industry are far away from realizing the goals of economic growth going hand-in-hand with the social and environmental sustainability.
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Multi-dimensional Circular Supply Chain Management: A Comparative Review of the State-of-the-art Practices and Research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of state-of-the-art practices and research in circular supply chain management (CSCM), i.e., the integration of circular economy (CE) thinking into SCM with the goal of achieving zero wastes.
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Does implementing trade-in and green technology together benefit the environment?
Guowei Dou,Tsan-Ming Choi +1 more
TL;DR: Analysis of real-world practices and analytical models show that the “R-collect scheme with GT” leads to the highest levels of supply chain profit and social welfare but more emissions may be generated, while implementing GT does not always benefit the environment in both R-collect and M-collect schemes.
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Game theory applications in production research in the sharing and circular economy era
TL;DR: The meanings of sharing economy and circular supply chains in production research are examined and the featured papers of the special issue are introduced and the major insights developed are highlighted.
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