Information sharing in a competitive supply chain with capacity constraint |
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Authors: | Yu Qian Jian Chen Le Miao Jihong Zhang |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China 2. School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China 3. CITIC Private Equity Funds Management Co., Ltd., Beijing, 100005, China 4. International Business School, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, 100089, China
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Abstract: | This paper studies the incentives for vertical demand information sharing in a two-echelon supply chain formed by many downstream retailers and one upstream manufacturer with a limited production capacity. The retailers are engaged in a Cournot competition, and endowed with some private information about the demand. The total order of all the retailers may exceed the manufacturer’s capacity, and in that case, an allocation strategy is required. We show that a discriminated allocation strategy will encourage the retailers to share their demand information. We also find the condition under which full information sharing can be reached. Furthermore, we prove that when the manufacturer cannot satisfy the total order of all the retailers, social welfare and consumer surplus will be locked by the capacity. |
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