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Operational Implications of Environmental Regulation

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Environmental regulation has important implications on the design and operation of sustainable supply chains. In particular, driving supply chains toward environmental sustainability heavily depends on how the regulation is implemented. To realize a simple regulatory principle, various implementation choices may be available to regulators, and these choices can generate very different incentives on different stakeholders and how they operationalize sustainability. In this chapter, we review a number of recent research papers in operations management to illustrate this phenomenon in the context of take-back regulation and posit that looking through an operational lens should be an essential component of appropriate formulation and effective compliance for environmental regulation.

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  1. Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Ximin (Natalie) Huang

  2. Technology and Operations Management Area, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France

    Atalay Atasu

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  1. Kedge Business School, Talence, France

    Yann Bouchery

  2. Anderson School of Management, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Charles J. Corbett

  3. School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Jan C. Fransoo

  4. Department of Business Administration, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Tarkan Tan

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Huang, X.(., Atasu, A. (2024). Operational Implications of Environmental Regulation. In: Bouchery, Y., Corbett, C.J., Fransoo, J.C., Tan, T. (eds) Sustainable Supply Chains. Springer Series in Supply Chain Management, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45565-0_8

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