Cooperative game approaches to coordinating a three-echelon closed-loop supply chain with fairness concerns Kevin W. Li, Ph.D.Professor of Management ScienceOdette School of Business

University of WindsorWindsor, Ontario N9B 3P4Canada

Abstract

This paper investigates a three-echelon closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) consisting of one manufacturer, one distributor, and one retailer. Cooperative and non-cooperative game theoretic analyses are employed to characterize interactions among different parties. We focus on the impact of the retailer’s fairness concerns on different CLSC members’ decision under the decentralized and various cooperative models. Analytical results confirm the conventional wisdom: with the retailer’s fairness concerns, the channel profits under the decentralized and partial-coalition models underperform that under the centralized model. To find an appropriate profit allocation scheme to coordinate the supply chain system with fairness concerns, we resort to the cooperative game theory to maximize the channel profit and achieve a win-win scenario for all parties. To this end, we first compute the characteristic function based on the optimal profits under decentralized and different partial-coalition models. Subsequently, we propose three coordination mechanisms based on the Shapley value, nucleolus solution, and equal satisfaction. The three mechanisms are then evaluated by using numerical experiments.

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李武(Kevin W. Li) 教授簡介

李武(Kevin W. Li)博士,加拿大溫莎大學Odette商學院管理科學教授。1991年獲廈門大學控制科學理學學士學位，1994年獲廈門大學系統工程工學碩士學位，2003年獲加拿大滑鐵盧大學系統設計工程工學博士學位。2011年6月-12月和2015年5月-7月由日本學術振興會（JSPS）外籍聘用研究員項目(Invitation Fellowship)資助到東京工業大學價值與決策科學系進行訪問研究。主要研究方向包括供應鏈管理、決策理論與方法以及沖突分析等。李武教授的研究獲得三項加拿大自然科學與工程研究基金會發現基金項目的支持，同時也多次得到國家教育部春暉計劃短期項目支持。自2001年以來，在國際期刊如European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part A, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Transportation Research: Part E, Water Resources Research等發表48篇學術論文，李武教授的研究工作得到國內外同行的廣泛引用(SCI/SSCI累計引用1114次，h指數19；Google Scholar累計引用2101次，h指數25)，在相關領域產生了一定影響，現任SSCI期刊《Group Decision and Negotiation》及多個國際期刊的Associate Editor或編委。