Product returns management: a comprehensive review and future research agenda

P Ambilkar, V Dohale, A Gunasekaran… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Product return is a critical issue due to the uncertainty associated with the price, demand,
and quality of the product. Thus, businesses must improve their information transparency to …

A systematic review of e-tail product returns and an agenda for future research

K Ahsan, S Rahman - Industrial Management & Data Systems, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This study conducts a systematic literature review of e-tail product returns research.
E-tail product returns are essentially acquisition of products that have been sold through …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges at the marketing–operations interface in omni-channel retail environments

THA Bijmolt, M Broekhuis, S De Leeuw… - Journal of business …, 2021 - Elsevier
To compete in today's omni-channel business context, it is essential for firms to co-ordinate
their activities across channels and across different stages of the customer journey and the …

Smart green nudging: Reducing product returns through digital footprints and causal machine learning

M von Zahn, K Bauer, C Mihale-Wilson… - Marketing …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
In e-commerce, product returns have become a costly and escalating issue for retailers.
Beyond the financial implications for businesses, product returns also lead to increased …

The impact of information overload of e-commerce platform on consumer return intention: Considering the moderating role of perceived environmental effectiveness

J Lv, X Liu - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The increasingly serious problem of consumers returning goods on e-commerce platforms
has brought high costs to the Internet economy, carbon pollution to the environment, and …

Reducing retail supply chain costs of product returns using digital product fitting

E Gustafsson, P Jonsson, J Holmström - International Journal of …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper investigate how fit uncertainty impacts product return costs in online
retailing and how digital product fitting, a pre-sales fitting practice, can reduce fit uncertainty …

Managing physical inventory and return policies for omnichannel retailing

B Ma, B Mao, S Liu, F Meng, J Liu - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
As the retail industry increasingly adopts an omnichannel strategy amidst the growth of e-
commerce, this study explores the interplay between inventory and return policies in such a …

Using website information to reduce postpurchase dissonance: A mediated moderating role of perceived risk

M Li, AH Choudhury - Psychology & marketing, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A significant body of research is dedicated to decreasing the product return rate by applying
management measures that identify the factors and causes of returns. These studies …

Retailers beware: On denied product returns and consumer behavior

LC Dailey, MA Ülkü - Journal of Business Research, 2018 - Elsevier
The wide variety of retailer return policies can cause consumers confusion. While keeping
costs contained, very restrictive Return Policies (RPs) may mar consumer behavior. As a first …

Role of online retailers' post-sale services in building relationships and developing repurchases: a comparison-based analysis among male and female customers

MK Javed, M Wu, T Qadeer, A Manzoor… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Customers are skeptical about shopping online because e-commerce environments are
typically considered impersonal. To assure product quality and to enhance customer …