Rainer Kleber

896 total citations
19 papers, 647 citations indexed

About

Rainer Kleber is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Management Information Systems and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rainer Kleber has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 647 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Strategy and Management, 11 papers in Management Information Systems and 7 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rainer Kleber's work include Sustainable Supply Chain Management (16 papers), Supply Chain and Inventory Management (9 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (7 papers). Rainer Kleber is often cited by papers focused on Sustainable Supply Chain Management (16 papers), Supply Chain and Inventory Management (9 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (7 papers). Rainer Kleber collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Austria. Rainer Kleber's co-authors include Gilvan C. Souza, Stefan Minner, Guido Voigt, James D. Abbey, Karl Inderfurth, Marc Reimann, GP Gudrun Kiesmüller, Péter Kelle, Zhang Wei-hua and Lucio Zavanella and has published in prestigious journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Operations Management and International Journal of Production Economics.

In The Last Decade

Rainer Kleber

19 papers receiving 618 citations

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rainer Kleber Germany 13 536 353 225 203 72 19 647
Chirag Surti Canada 4 711 1.3× 293 0.8× 175 0.8× 311 1.5× 94 1.3× 9 836
Adem Örsdemir United States 7 524 1.0× 290 0.8× 181 0.8× 316 1.6× 66 0.9× 11 649
Xiaoqiang Cai Hong Kong 11 621 1.2× 565 1.6× 145 0.6× 153 0.8× 95 1.3× 19 778
Senlin Zhao China 12 684 1.3× 323 0.9× 207 0.9× 293 1.4× 58 0.8× 20 816
Xiaohua Han China 15 469 0.9× 366 1.0× 185 0.8× 365 1.8× 68 0.9× 27 727
Akshay Mutha United States 6 618 1.2× 241 0.7× 352 1.6× 119 0.6× 71 1.0× 9 692
Christos Zikopoulos Greece 11 515 1.0× 312 0.9× 295 1.3× 85 0.4× 73 1.0× 15 572
Xiong Zhong-kai China 12 738 1.4× 565 1.6× 286 1.3× 385 1.9× 85 1.2× 34 864
Fangchao Xu China 10 360 0.7× 239 0.7× 161 0.7× 156 0.8× 41 0.6× 17 491
Sudheer Gupta Canada 9 565 1.1× 313 0.9× 166 0.7× 275 1.4× 90 1.3× 24 763

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rainer Kleber

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All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Kleber, Rainer, João Quariguasi Frota Neto, & Marc Reimann. (2023). The role of part failure rates asymmetry and spare part proprietariness on remanufacturing decision making. European Journal of Operational Research. 310(1). 185–200. 6 indexed citations
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Kleber, Rainer, Marc Reimann, Gilvan C. Souza, & Zhang Wei-hua. (2020). Two-sided competition with vertical differentiation in both acquisition and sales in remanufacturing. European Journal of Operational Research. 284(2). 572–587. 42 indexed citations
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Kleber, Rainer, João Quariguasi Frota Neto, & Marc Reimann. (2019). Proprietary Parts as a Secondary Market Strategy. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Abbey, James D., Rainer Kleber, Gilvan C. Souza, & Guido Voigt. (2019). Remanufacturing and consumers' risky choices: Behavioral modeling and the role of ambiguity aversion. Journal of Operations Management. 65(1). 4–21. 41 indexed citations
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Kleber, Rainer, João Quariguasi Frota Neto, & Marc Reimann. (2019). Proprietary parts as a secondary market strategy. European Journal of Operational Research. 283(3). 929–941. 19 indexed citations
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Kleber, Rainer, Marc Reimann, Gilvan C. Souza, & Zhang Wei-hua. (2018). On the robustness of the consumer homogeneity assumption with respect to the discount factor for remanufactured products. European Journal of Operational Research. 269(3). 1027–1040. 28 indexed citations
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Inderfurth, Karl, Péter Kelle, & Rainer Kleber. (2017). Inventory control in dual sourcing commodity procurement with price correlation. Central European Journal of Operations Research. 26(1). 93–119. 15 indexed citations
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Abbey, James D., Rainer Kleber, Gilvan C. Souza, & Guido Voigt. (2016). The Role of Perceived Quality Risk in Pricing Remanufactured Products. Production and Operations Management. 26(1). 100–115. 157 indexed citations
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Inderfurth, Karl, Péter Kelle, & Rainer Kleber. (2012). Dual sourcing using capacity reservation and spot market: Optimal procurement policy and heuristic parameter determination. European Journal of Operational Research. 225(2). 298–309. 61 indexed citations
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Inderfurth, Karl & Rainer Kleber. (2012). An Advanced Heuristic for Multiple‐Option Spare Parts Procurement after End‐of‐Production. Production and Operations Management. 22(1). 54–70. 34 indexed citations
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Kleber, Rainer, Tobias Schulz, & Guido Voigt. (2011). Dynamic buy-back for product recovery in end-of-life spare parts procurement. International Journal of Production Research. 50(6). 1476–1488. 20 indexed citations
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Kleber, Rainer, Simone Zanoni, & Lucio Zavanella. (2010). On how buyback and remanufacturing strategies affect the profitability of spare parts supply chains. International Journal of Production Economics. 133(1). 135–142. 32 indexed citations
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Inderfurth, Karl & Rainer Kleber. (2009). Modellgestützte Flexibilitätsanalyse von Strategien zur Ersatzteilversorgung in der Nachserienphase. Journal of Business Economics. 79(9). 1019–1049. 2 indexed citations
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Kleber, Rainer. (2006). Dynamic Inventory Management in Reverse Logistics. Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems. 10 indexed citations
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Kleber, Rainer. (2005). The integral decision on production/remanufacturing technology and investment time in product recovery. OR Spectrum. 28(1). 21–51. 15 indexed citations
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Teunter, Ruud, Karl Inderfurth, Stefan Minner, & Rainer Kleber. (2003). Reverse logistics in a pharmaceutical company: a case study. RePub (Erasmus University Rotterdam). 11 indexed citations
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Kleber, Rainer, Stefan Minner, & GP Gudrun Kiesmüller. (2002). A continuous time inventory model for a product recovery system with multiple options. International Journal of Production Economics. 79(2). 121–141. 78 indexed citations
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Minner, Stefan & Rainer Kleber. (2001). Optimal control of production and remanufacturing in a simple recovery model with linear cost functions. OR Spectrum. 23(1). 3–24. 73 indexed citations
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Kleber, Rainer, Stefan Minner, & Gudrun P. Kiesmüller. (2000). Multiple options in dynamic product recovery systems. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 147–166. 2 indexed citations

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