关键词: 供应链, EPR政策, 纵向结构, 环保性能, 可循环性

Abstract: To reveal the impact of supply chain vertical structures on Extended Producer Responsibility(EPR)policy’s incentive effects, this paper establishes a decision model based on EPR policy for supply chain comprised of manufacturer and customer, and then compares the manufacturer’s environmental design decisions about environmental performance and remanufacturability in different supply chain vertical structures, i.e. vertical integration and vertical separation. The result shows that: owing to the interest coordination mechanisms between manufacturer and customer will be different in diverse supply chain vertical structures, and manufacturers will change their environmental design choices. Compared with vertical separation, EPR policy has a more incentive effect on product remanufacturability under vertical integration; incentive effect of EPR policy on product environmental performance depends on the industrial characteristics about production cost and environmental cost. When the pollutants are mainly from the use of their products and it is difficult for manufacturers to enhance the environmental performance of the products, EPR policy has a more incentive effect on environmental performance under vertical separation. Conversely, when the pollutants derive mainly from the retired products and it is easy to enhance the environmental performance of the products, EPR policy has a more incentive effect on environmental performance under vertical integration. Finally, suggestions on the coordination between EPR and industrial policies are proposed based on the derived conclusions.

Key words: supply chain, EPR policy, vertical structure, environmental performance, remanufacturability