Title
Advertising and Pricing Decisions in a Manufacturer-Retailer Channel with Demand and Cost Disruptions
Abstract
This paper investigates advertising level, pricing and production quantity decision problems in a supply chain when demand and production cost disruptions occur simultaneously. The supply chain consists of one manufacturer and one retailer where customer demand depends on the retail price and advertisement expenditure. The authors examine this problem in two game-theoretic models: a cooperative game and a non-cooperative Stackelberg-manufacturer game, respectively. Propositions and insights are developed from the analysis of these models. The original production plan has some robustness in face of the disruptions of demand and production cost in both cooperative and non-cooperative models. Only when the disruptions exceed some thresholds will the channel members take an overall adjustment. In addition, the cooperative channel achieves higher channel profits and higher social surplus than the non-cooperative model by using a lower retail price and a higher level of advertising efforts to promote demand.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.4018/IJISSCM.2015070103
IJISSCM
Keywords
Field
DocType
Advertising Level, Demand Disruption, Game Theory, Production Cost Disruption, Supply Chain Management
Decision problem,Advertising,Microeconomics,Production cost,Communication channel,Robustness (computer science),Economic surplus,Supply chain,Marketing,Profit (economics),Business
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
3
1935-5726
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.42
13
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lingxiao Yuan130.42
Chao Yang28722.49
Taotao Li330.42