Title
Bargaining in competing supply chains with uncertainty
Abstract
Substantial literature has been devoted to supply chain coordination. The majority of this literature ignores competition between supply chains. Moreover, a significant part of this literature focuses on coordination that induce the supply chain members to follow strategies that produce the equilibria chosen by a vertically integrated supply chain. This paper investigates the equilibrium behavior of two competing supply chains in the presence of demand uncertainty. We consider joint pricing and quantity decisions and competition under three possible supply chain strategies: Vertical Integration (VI), Manufacturer’s Stackelberg (MS), and Bargaining on the Wholesale price (BW(α), α is the bargaining parameter) over a single or infinitely many periods. We show that, in contrast to earlier literature, using VIVI (VI in both chains) is the unique Nash Equilibrium over one period decision, while using MSMS or BW(α)BW(α) may be Nash Equilibrium over infinitely many periods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1016/j.ejor.2008.06.032
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Competing supply chain,Uncertain demand,Bargaining,Channel coordination
Channel coordination,Economics,Microeconomics,Vertical integration,Supply chain,Stackelberg competition,Nash equilibrium,Operations management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
197
2
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
26
1.14
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Desheng Wu1261.14
Opher Baron214514.64
O. Berman31604231.36