the shapley value, one of the most common solution concepts of cooperative game theory is defined and axiomatically characterized in different game-theoretic models. certainly, the shapley value can be used in interesting sharing cost/reward problems in the operations research area such as connection, routing, scheduling, production and inventory situations. in this paper, we focus on the shapl...

The phenomenon of cooperative advertising in the market has always been widespread. Considering a supply chain consisting one manufacturer and multiple retailers with competitive relationships, we explore strategies for deteriorating items when demand is affected by reference price. By establishing differential game model, equilibrium profits under different situations are analysed from long-te...

  Supply chain includes two or more parties linked by flow of goods, information, and funds. In a decentralized system, supply chain members make decision regardless of their decision's effects on the performance of the other members and the entire supply chain. This is the key issue in supply chain management, that the mechanism should be developed in which different objectives should be align...

This paper investigates pricing and ordering as well as advertising coordination issues in a single-manufacturer single-retailer supply chain, where the manufacturer sells a newsvendor-type product through the retailer who faces a stochastic demand depending on both retail price and advertising expenditure. Under the assumption that the market demand has a multiplicative functional form, the St...

We study the information sharing in a supply chain of manufacturer selling to two asymmetric retailers engaged inventory competition. The dominant retailer has strong bargaining power and market power, which means that it enjoys lower wholesale price can obtain part unmet demand transferred from weak retailer. offers As retailer’s private is unknown other participants, whether share players bec...

With the rapid development of electronic commerce, many manufacturers choose to establish dualchannel supply chains. To promote sales, the manufacturer in a dual-channel supply chain usually invests in national advertising and provides support to the retailer who promotes the goodwill through local advertisement. In our research, we use a Stackelberg differential game theoretic model to show th...

The consolidation of power among retailers in recent years has forced many manufacturers to compete in a channel structure in which managing relations with retailers has become just as important as competing with one’s rivals. One consequence of this is that supply terms are now often negotiated individually with each retailer (e.g., wholesale prices, quantity discounts, cooperative advertising...

abstract a quantitative framework of combination of liner programming and cooperative game theory was used in this study to analyze and model cooperative contracts in production based on rural households' resources cooperation in firoozabad plain. revenues and costs in cooperation game theory have important rule to get agreement. transaction cost function was used in cooperative costs accountin...