Logistics service sharing of sellers on an e-commerce platform considering the behaviour of carbon emission pooling

Abstract

Motivated by logistics service sharing evidences and taking the possible carbon emission pooling behaviour into consideration, we have studied the logistics service sharing and carbon emission pooling problem in an e-commerce supply chain composed of two sellers and a platform company. We first analyse the role of logistics service sharing and find that sellers are likely to share logistics services and such behaviour brings the platform company extra profits. In terms of whether logistics service sharing induces carbon emission pooling, we find that sellers may establish a carbon emission pooling mechanism and the platform company is always willing to provide a marketplace for sellers’ emission trading. Moreover, we discuss two extensions, and results show that the existence of sellers’ horizontal competition and carbon caps does not affect sellers’ and the platform company’s attitudes toward logistics service sharing and it is still necessary to establish the carbon emission pooling mechanism.