Title: Third-party remanufacturing modes with integrated tax-subsidy policy

Authors: Zhangwei Feng; Na Luo; Bisheng Du; Haorui Wang

Addresses: School of Business, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China ' Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, The University of Auckland Business School, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand ' School of Business, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China ' School of Economic and Management, Tiangong University, Tianjin, 300387, China

Abstract: Tax-subsidy policy is a common government intervention mechanism to stimulate firms taking part in sustainable remanufacturing operations. Focusing on the third-party remanufacturing strategy (outsourcing or authorisation), this paper develops game models to study the trade-offs between manufactures and third-party remanufactures. Unlike the existing literature, we particularly include the feature of green consumers and the government intervention into the analytical model. The findings of this paper include: 1) manufactures choose authorisation when consumers show no green preferences; 2) third-party remanufactures need actions to improve green consumer preference for achieving high profit; 3) when unit carbon tax is high, manufacturers select authorisation; otherwise, outsourcing; 4) outsourcing strategy is beneficial to environmental sustainability and social welfare. [Submitted: 8 September 2021; Accepted: 17 July 2022]

Keywords: outsourcing; authorisation; product quality; green consumer preference; integrated tax-subsidy; game theory.

DOI: 10.1504/EJIE.2023.133168

European Journal of Industrial Engineering, 2023 Vol.17 No.5, pp.740 - 765

Received: 08 Sep 2021
Accepted: 17 Jul 2022
Published online: 01 Sep 2023 *

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