This article analyses the impact of ownership structure on investments in a three-party supply chain from an incomplete contracting perspective. Circumstances are determined in which a marketing cooperative is the unique first-best ownership structure.

impact of supply chain drivers on supply chain performance has no far been studied. in this research we want identifying supply chain drivers, classifying them and examining their relationship with iran's supply chain performance. this research has innovation in identifying and classifying drivers and examining relationship between drivers and supply chain performance we used bsc for assessing ...

In this paper, we propose a new cooperative scenario for supply chains using common replenishment epochs based on the mathematical model presented in Viswanathan and Piplani’s [25] paper. In order to solve an optimal solution for the cooperative scenario, we first conduct a theoretical analysis on the optimal cost function of the mathematical model. Then, we propose an efficient search algorith...

the aim of this study was to represent effective componentsin demand chain which help organizations attain high performance levelsthrough identification of these components and determining theirdegree of importance. the following questions were major ideas of thisstudy: what are the most effective components in demand chain? andhow are they effective on organizational performance? to this end,m...

Today many firms are attempting to reconstruct traditional trading relationships in the supply chain by pursuing collaborative partnerships. Some firms have introduced Internet-enabled supply chain systems to integrate strategic suppliers into collaborative networks to promote cooperative activities and relationships. In reality, many of these so-called ‘collaborative’ supply chain systems have...

Revenue sharing is an effective mechanism for coordinating decisions in a supply chain. For a three-stage supply chain, we explore how revenue-based incentives can be used by the stage 1 supply chain agent (retailer) to motivate cooperative behavior from its two upstream partners with conflicting interests. To illustrate our analysis, we provide a food supply chain example, with retailer, proce...

The purpose of the paper is to generate an understanding of the prerequisites for sustainable supply chain management. A common tendency in the literature is to see sustainable supply chain management as something that is undertaken by a focal firm at the end of the chain. Even though many scholars point to the need for cooperative approaches, focal firms are still considered to manage supply c...