Title
An allocation game model with reciprocal behavior and its applications in supply chain pricing decisions.
Abstract
Commonly, people are much nicer in response to friendly actions and much nastier and even brutal in response to hostile actions. In social psychology, such a phenomenon is called reciprocity. As an extension of the standard Stackelberg game, we propose a new allocation game framework with consideration of such reciprocal behavior. Specifically, we consider a situation in which the follower evaluates the leaders intention based on the leaders action and then may take either a positive or negative reciprocal action. We also apply the new framework in a supply chain pricing problem to investigate the impact of the retailer’s reciprocal behavior on pricing decisions, obtaining the following interesting results. First, the supplier should take into account the retailers personality and offer a wholesale price based on it. Second, while the retailer can benefit from his reciprocal behavior, the supplier suffers in most cases. Finally, the retailers reciprocal behavior can help alleviate the double marginalization effect, and thus lead to a performance improvement in the whole supply chain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s10479-016-2165-9
Annals OR
Keywords
Field
DocType
Reciprocal behavior, Fairness concern, Stackelberg game, Supply chain pricing decision
Reciprocal,Economics,Microeconomics,Social exclusion,Supply chain,Reciprocity (social psychology),Phenomenon,Stackelberg competition,Performance improvement
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
258
2
1572-9338
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yan Zhang120.71
Juan Li220.71
Qinglong Gou3275.04