Evolutionary Game Analysis of the Quality of Agricultural Products in Supply Chain

Feixiao Wang and Yaoqun Xu ()
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Feixiao Wang: Institute of Systems Engineering, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150028, China
Yaoqun Xu: Institute of Systems Engineering, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150028, China

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 10, 1-16

Abstract: There are many factors affecting the quality and safety of agricultural products in the supply chain of agricultural products. In order to ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products, suppliers and processors need to take their own quality measures to ensure the quality of agricultural products. Quality inspection departments need to strictly supervise suppliers and processors to ensure the implementation of quality measures by both parties. Within the supply chain, the decisions of these three stakeholders are affected by the initial intention, the cost of quality measures, and the penalty amount of the quality inspection department. Outside the supply chain, they are affected by government regulation and consumer feedback. This paper takes the stakeholders in the agricultural product supply chain as the object, brings suppliers, processors, and quality inspection departments into the evolutionary game model, brings the factors that affect the decision-making of these three stakeholders into the model as parameters to analyze the stability of the model in different situations, and then analyzes the factors that affect the decision-making of stakeholders through mathematical simulation according to specific examples. The results show that the enthusiasm of stakeholders to ensure the quality of agricultural products is most affected by the initial intention of each other and the cost of quality measures. At the same time, the punishment of the quality inspection department, the feedback of consumers, and the supervision of the government also play a good role in promoting quality.

Keywords: quality and safety of agricultural products; quality measures; agricultural product supply chain; evolutionary game; decisions of stakeholders (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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