Strategic Analysis of Dual-Channel Green Supply Chain with an Unreliable and Competitive Supplier

Chongfeng Lan, Zhongzhen Miao and Huanyong Ji
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Chongfeng Lan: School of Economics, Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang 236037, China
Zhongzhen Miao: School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Huanyong Ji: School of Economics and Management, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 10, 1-22

Abstract: With the increasing public awareness of environmental issues, green production has become an important issue for supply chain management. This study proposes an analytical model to investigate the dual-channel green supply chain decisions of a retailer and a competitive supplier; the latter suffers from unreliable production yield. The retailer’s environmental responsibility is considered as a two-echelon supply chain in which the retailer promotes the green product in their marketplace through green marketing. This problem is analyzed and modeled under three available channel strategies, considered in the order in which channel selections are made: a single online channel strategy, a single retail channel strategy, and a dual-channel strategy. The results show that the wholesale price of the manufacturer and the green-marketing effect of the retailer increase with the improvement in the level of the green production technology. Interestingly, the result reveals that a retailer’s expected profit is unimodal in the production technology level under the dual-channel strategy, which suggests that the retailer may not be incentivized to encourage the manufacturer to improve its production technology once a threshold has been reached. Further, we develop the channel selection: the retailer is strictly better off in the single retail channel scenario than that in the dual-channel scenario; however, while the unreliable supplier is better off in the single online channel scenario than that in the single retail channel scenario, its best option is still the dual-channel strategy. Additionally, numerical results illustrate that the expected profits of supply chain parties decrease with the improvement in customer acceptance of the online channel.

Keywords: green supply chain; yield uncertainty; dual-channel; green marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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