Coordinating Leader-Follower Supply Chain with Sustainable Green Technology Innovation on Their Fairness Concerns

Bisheng Du, Qing Liu and Guiping Li
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Bisheng Du: School of Business, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
Qing Liu: School of Business, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
Guiping Li: School of Business, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China

IJERPH, 2017, vol. 14, issue 11, 1-23

Abstract: Sustainable green technology innovation is essential in all the stages of the supply chain development. The members of the supply chain in each stage need to invest in sustainable green technology innovation research and development. However, whether the sustainable green technology innovation investments and profits for all the members are fairness concerned is a critical factor to motivate the supply chain members. Motivated by a real business investigation, in this study, a supply chain model with one supplier and one manufacturer is analyzed. We consider fairness concerns for the supplier and the manufacturer with sustainable green technology innovation development. We derive the optimal results in both with and without fairness concern. The results indicate that fairness concerns can promote and coordinate the supply chain members without advantage inequity averseness, to invest more on their sustainable green technology innovation development.

Keywords: sustainable green technology innovation; supply chain; fairness concern; game theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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