To introduce competition or not to introduce competition: An analysis of corporate social responsibility investment collaboration in a two-echelon supply chain

Zizhuo Wang, Mingzheng Wang and Weiwei Liu

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2020, vol. 133, issue C

Abstract: In this paper, we study the effects of introducing competition on supply chain systems and partner collaboration. We find that a system with internal competition obtains greater total profits, higher effective CSR investment levels, lower sales prices, and a larger market share through no collaboration or only-CSR-investment collaboration than a system without internal competition. Through introducing competition between retailers, only-CSR-investment cooperation achieves the same effective CSR investment level and total profits as CSR investment and pricing joint cooperation. We give some managerial insights into strategies for regional collaboration.

Keywords: Two-echelon supply chain; Corporate social responsibility (CSR) investment; Internal competition; Collaboration intensity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2019.11.006

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