This study investigates how the structure of a supply chain network in the domestic market influences the foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions of firms embedded in the network. We first describe the binary choice of firms on whether to invest through a coordination game of a fixed network with incomplete information of the firms’ profits, and we show that the unique equilibrium of the game...

Fresh produce supply chains have special characteristics, notably, that the quality of the product (fruit or vegetable) deteriorates continuously over time, even under ideal conditions. In this paper, we begin with explicit formulae for fresh produce quality deterioration based on chemistry and temperature and provide a path-based framework. We then focus on farmers’ markets, the popularity of ...

The prosperity of e-commerce has made more and businesses willing to enter the market, which also brought a series strategic collaboration between firms. This study considers game models with without platform retailer. An relative logistics service sharing advantages while retailer procurement advantages. We formulated multichannel supply chain consisting manufacturer two retailers explore feas...

Considering the influence of consumers’ perception eco-quality (CPQ) on dynamic strategies continuous agri-product supply chain, paper examines a two-stage chain composed supplier and retailer, where invests in improvement retailer advertising. Taking CPQ, goodwill as ternary state variables, formulates joint decision-making models based differential game theory. The has analyzed equilibrium de...

Ahstracl Researchers at Delft University and the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland have developed the "Global Supply Chain Game" (GSCG). A specific instance of the game is called the "Distributor Game," centered on globalization and the real-time supply chain. The GSCG differs from many existing business learning games in that, as opposed to being turn-lxised and ...

We analyze the behavior of a competitive n-tier supply chain system, where agents bargain with each other locally. We study the influence of transaction costs on the convergence of the system to a stationary outcome. In particular, we consider a dynamic bargaining game among a finite set of agents and its replications, and use a limit stationary equilibrium to examine the system’s behavior as t...

This paper considers advertising, collection and pricing decisions simultaneously for a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) with one manufacturer (he) and two retailers (she). A multiplicatively separable new demand function is proposed which influenced by pricing and advertising. In this paper, three well-known scenarios in the game theory including the Nash, Stackelberg and Cooperative games are ...

In this paper, we develop a supply chain network game theory model with product differentiation, possible outsourcing of production and distribution, and quality and price competition. The original firms compete with one another in terms of in-house quality levels and product flows, whereas the contractors, aiming at maximizing their own profits, engage in competition for the outsourced product...

task graph scheduling is a multi-objective optimization and np-hard problem. in this paper a new algorithm on homogeneous multiprocessors systems is proposed. basically, scheduling algorithms are targeted to balance the two parameters of time and energy consumption. these two parameters are up to a certain limit in contrast with each other and improvement of one causes reduction in the other on...

We describe a board game in which students assume the roles of supply chain enterprises and move game pieces (e.g. Legos, Velcro, etc.) that represent the parts of a basketball hoop. They then assemble these parts and form the final product and sell it to the customers. The game is the first of its kind to illustrate the concepts of shortage gaming, synchronization of the flow of parts, demand ...