A Game Model Between Governments and Enterprises in the Green Supply Chain of the Home Appliance Industry

Xu Ai,Gao Shufeng

doi:10.24212/2179-3565.2013v4i1p35-42

Abstract

Green supply chain management is a kind of effective management approach for home appliance industry to pursue the strategy of sustainable development and improve the product international competitiveness. In this paper, a game model is proposed to study the relationship and game status between governments and enterprises in the green supply chain of the home appliance industry. Through the equilibrium analysis of the game model, some countermeasures are put forward, which can be helpful to improve the construction of the green supply chain in the home appliance industry.

Highlights

Since the beginning of the 21st century, to protect the ecological environment and realize sustainable development has become a topic of common concern around the world
WEEE directive 2002/96/EC (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, as amended by 2003/108/EC) and RoHS directive 2002/95/EC (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) are two important regulations relating to household electrical and electronic equipment used by consumers
Some researchers analyzed the relationship between the enterprises within green supply chain, e.g., Wang and Yan (2009)[13] analyzed the respective costs and benefits of suppliers and core-enterprise in green supply chain, and established an evolutionary game model between governments and enterprises based on evolutionary game theory

Summary

Introduction

Since the beginning of the 21st century, to protect the ecological environment and realize sustainable development has become a topic of common concern around the world. There are a few scholars having tried to conduct preliminary analysis of the multilateral game relationship between governments, enterprises and consumers in the green supply chain, e.g., Wang (2004)[10]. Some researchers analyzed the relationship between the enterprises within green supply chain, e.g., Wang and Yan (2009)[13] analyzed the respective costs and benefits of suppliers and core-enterprise in green supply chain, and established an evolutionary game model between governments and enterprises based on evolutionary game theory. Concerning of the pressure from the more strict environmental rules such as WEEE and RoHS, it will be essential to study the game relationship between the main stakeholders in the green supply chain of home appliance industry, which will be helpful to promote the construction and development of the green supply chain

A Game Model between Governments and Home Appliance Enterprises

Pure strategy nash equilibrium

Mixed strategy equilibrium

Influencing fators of p2

Influencing fators of p1

Conclusions