Reverse Logistics in the Computer Industry

نویسندگان

  • Kanwalroop Kathy Dhanda
  • A. A. Peters
چکیده

The computer industry has witnessed an unprecedented growth in the last few decades. It is one of the fastest growing manufacturing industries and, due to high rate of obsolescence, one of the industries with the highest rate of e-waste. This paper applies a reverse logistics hierarchy to determine what steps are being taken in the industry and presents some suggested solutions to the problem from the systems theory perspective.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Int. J. Comput. Syst. Signal

دوره 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2005