Green Product Design With Engineering Tradeoffs Under Technology Efficient Frontiers: Analytical Results and Empirical Tests

doi:10.1109/TEM.2012.2212199

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	Green Product Design With Engineering Tradeoffs Under Technology Efficient Frontiers: Analytical Results and Empirical Tests
	Chen, Chialin 1; Zhang, Jun 2
刊名	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
	2013-05
卷号	60 期号:2 页码:340-352
关键词	Design for the environment natural environment technology efficient frontiers
ISSN号	0018-9391
DOI	10.1109/TEM.2012.2212199
英文摘要	To implement green product design, many companies today utilize the product-line strategy to develop environment-friendly products for customers with different willingness-to-pay for the environmental attributes of a product. One major challenge in designing green products is how to deal with the engineering tradeoff between the traditional and environmental attributes along the technology efficient frontier. In this paper, we conceptualize the technology efficient frontier in green product design, and perform theoretical and empirical analyses on the design decisions under different functional forms of efficient frontiers. We develop an analytical framework for identifying the optimal designs under general forms of efficient frontiers, and propose a novel use of trigonometric functions to analyze the design decisions under the linear, concave, and convex efficient frontiers. Additionally, we analyze the average environmental qualities under different efficient frontiers and show that switching between different product-line strategies allows a firm to achieve higher average environmental quality as an alternative to pushing the efficient frontier outward through technology advancement. Moreover, we conduct empirical tests to demonstrate how to empirically identify an efficient frontier and estimate key model parameters. Our analytical results provide new insights for decision makers to manage and regulate green product design with engineering tradeoffs.
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics ; Engineering
语种	英语
出版者	IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
WOS记录号	WOS:000318161400012
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://10.2.47.112/handle/2XS4QKH4/1993]
专题	上海财经大学
通讯作者	Chen, Chialin
作者单位	1.Queens Univ, Queens Sch Business, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada; 2.Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Int Business Adm, Shanghai 200083, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen, Chialin,Zhang, Jun. Green Product Design With Engineering Tradeoffs Under Technology Efficient Frontiers: Analytical Results and Empirical Tests[J]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT,2013,60(2):340-352.
APA	Chen, Chialin,&Zhang, Jun.(2013).Green Product Design With Engineering Tradeoffs Under Technology Efficient Frontiers: Analytical Results and Empirical Tests.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT,60(2),340-352.
MLA	Chen, Chialin,et al."Green Product Design With Engineering Tradeoffs Under Technology Efficient Frontiers: Analytical Results and Empirical Tests".IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT 60.2(2013):340-352.