Enhancing a triple capital-constrained supply chain performance: Alliance financing, profit distribution, and information structure

Xiaofeng Xie, Xun Xu, Chong Zhang and Fengying Zhang

International Journal of Production Economics, 2025, vol. 281, issue C

Abstract: In a contemporary supply chain, the situations in which all upstream, midstream, and downstream participants face capital constraints commonly appear and call for participants to coordinate and form an alliance to adopt supply chain finance (SCF) to optimize their operations and improve performance. Applying a game-theoretic framework, we examine four SCF alliances associated with a capital-constrained supplier, manufacturer, and retailer, respectively, within a triple capital-constrained supply chain (TCSC), including partial and full alliance financing schemes, and compare the participants’ profit, propagation effect of insolvency risk, and supply chain performance with individual financing. Our findings suggest that full alliance financing, although generates more propagation effect of insolvency risk, brings additional profit to all participants in a TCSC than partial or individual financing through reduced double or triple marginalization, as reflected by lower wholesale price, higher order quantity, and lower financing amount. The initial capital level is important in affecting participants’ operational and financial decisions and profits. Regarding profit distribution plans, we find the Shapley value distribution approach is preferred by all parties more than expected profit or even distribution when the collaborative benefits from alliance financing are high. Asymmetric information affects participants’ operational and financial decisions, profits, and the propagation effect of insolvency risk. Our findings guide participants in forming an alliance to apply for financing and coordinate to use the funds to optimize operations, achieve higher profit, implement the Shapley value profit distribution approach, enhance information transparency, and strengthen the intensity of insolvency risk monitoring and control.

Keywords: Supply chain management; Triple capital constraints; Alliance financing; Insolvency risk control; Profit distribution; Information asymmetry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2024.109515

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