Consumer value considerations and adoption of remanufactured products in closed-loop supply chains

• Published in: Industrial management + data systems Vol. 118; no. 2; pp. 480 - 498
• Main Authors: Wang, Yacan, Hazen, Benjamin T, Mollenkopf, Diane A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wembley Emerald Publishing Limited 12.03.2018; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subjects: Automobiles; Consumer behavior; Consumers; Ecological risk assessment; Energy consumption; Hypotheses; Innovations; Manufacturing; Marketing; Model testing; Operations management; Perceptions; Remanufacturing; Risk perception; Supply chains; Beijing China; United States > US; China; Tennessee; Structural equation modeling; Remanufacturing; Closed-loop supply chains; Diffusion of innovations; Consumer perceived value

Purpose The success of closed loop supply chains is contingent upon consumer acceptance of remanufactured products, yet little is known about how consumers value such products. The purpose of this paper is to provide theoretical grounding for understanding consumers’ value perceptions as related to...