Manufacturers’ Coalition under a Price Elastic Market - a Quadratic Production Game Approach

Sonia Mahjoub () and Jean-Claude Hennet
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Sonia Mahjoub: LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes
Jean-Claude Hennet: LSIS - Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - UTLN - Université de Toulon - Arts et Métiers Paristech ENSAM Aix-en-Provence - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The paper addresses a supply network design problem in which a set of enterprises decides to organize itself as a multi-stage supply network through resource sharing and production coordination. A biform game theory formulation of the problem is obtained by combining the cooperative subgame in the manufacturing network with the strategic subgame of the Stackelberg type between the retailer and the manufacturers' network. As a result of the interaction between these two subgames, a new type of cooperative game, the Quadratic Production Game (QPG), is formulated to describe the supply network design problem under anticipated price elastic demands from the market. The key problem of coalitional stability is addressed through the properties of rationality and fairness of the profit sharing agreement. We prove that the game is non convex in general and thus the fair solution given by the Shapley value allocation is not always rational. The main results indicate that the coalition stability can be reinforced by minimizing the number of partner enterprises achieving the maximal expected profit and applying a profit sharing policy with guaranteed fairness restricted to the member enterprises.

Keywords: Game theory; manufacturing; enterprises network; cooperative game theory; production games; biform games; Stackelberg equilibrium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-02
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Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2014, 52 (12), pp.3568-3582. ⟨10.1080/00207543.2013.874605⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2013.874605

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