Research on Corporate Social Responsibility Coordination of Three-Tier Supply Chain Based on Stochastic Differential Game.

Mingge Yang,Xiaozhen Liang,Zhuo Yang,Ying Li

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.783998

Abstract

In the Internet era, consumers prefer products with the attributes of social responsibility. Supply chain enterprises strengthen corporate social responsibility (CSR) management for their own development. To improve CSR throughout the supply chain, it requires coordination and cooperation among the members of the supply chain. In this paper, we consider a three-tier supply chain system consisting of a supplier, a manufacturer, and a retailer and use stochastic differential game to study the CSR coordination of the supply chain. The following indicators are investigated under four decision situations, such as the optimal level of CSR effort for the supply chain members, the optimal value of profit for the supply chain members and the supply chain system, and the expectation and variance of CSR goodwill. Some important results are obtained. (i) Compared with decentralized decision-making, the optimal level of CSR effort increases for the supplier and the manufacturer under local alliance decision-making without cost sharing, whereas the optimal level of CSR effort remains unchanged for the retailer. (ii) Compared with local alliance decision-making without cost sharing, the optimal level of CSR effort remains unchanged for the supplier and the manufacturer under local alliance decision-making with cost sharing. When the sum of the marginal profit for the supplier and the manufacturer is greater than half of the marginal profit for the retailer, the optimal level of CSR effort increases for the retailer. (iii) Compared with local alliance decision-making with cost sharing, the optimal level of CSR effort increases for the supply chain members under overall alliance decision-making. (iv) From decentralized decision-making to local alliance decision-making without cost sharing, to local alliance decision-making with cost sharing, and then to overall alliance decision-making, the optimal value of profit increases for the supply chain members and the supply chain system. Also, the expectation and variance of CSR goodwill increase.

Highlights

In the Internet era, consumers can choose their own shopping methods more rationally
It is considered that the three-tier supply chain is formed by a single supplier, a single manufacturer, and a single retailer
(1) The changes in relevant indexes under the local alliance decision-making without cost sharing are obtained by comparing the decentralized decision-making with the local alliance decision-making without cost sharing

Summary

INTRODUCTION

In the Internet era, consumers can choose their own shopping methods more rationally. We consider the influence of alliance mechanism on decision-making of the supply chain members and study CSR coordination of the supplier, the manufacturer, and the retailer. Considering the random interferences faced by the system, we construct a stochastic differential game model and study CSR coordination of the supplier, the manufacturer, and the retailer in three-tier supply chain. Assumptions 1: CSR goodwill of the product is a dynamic changing process It is positively affected by CSR effort of the supplier, the manufacturer, and the retailer. Decision-making problems of the supplier, the manufacturer, and the retailer are:

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