Research on Sustainable Cooperation Strategies for Cross-Regional Supply Chain Enterprises in Uncertain Environments

Abstract

Considering the fuzziness of cooperation and the sustainability of the redevelopment of cross-regional supply chain enterprises, the fuzzy participation degree and the generalized redistribution coefficient are introduced to describe the problem of cooperation and benefit distribution of cross-regional supply chain enterprises. A fuzzy average monotone game is constructed to study the strategies of cross-regional supply chain enterprises to increase the average benefit with the expansion of the alliance scale; a generalized fuzzy reduced game is discussed to ensure the partner selection decision of supply chain enterprises; the concepts of generalized fuzzy core, generalized fuzzy bargaining set, and generalized fuzzy proportional distribution are proposed; the equivalence between the generalized fuzzy core and the generalized fuzzy bargaining set of the fuzzy average monotone game of the cross-regional supply chain enterprises is proved; the nonempty generalized fuzzy core solution of the fuzzy average monotone game is characterized; and the example analysis shows the stability of the cross-regional supply chain enterprise alliance and the existence of the optimal generalized redistribution scheme. The research results not only satisfy the willingness of cross-regional supply chain enterprises to participate in cooperation with some resources from the “environmental” pillar of supply chain enterprise management sustainability but also achieve the strategy of retaining partial benefits for the redevelopment of supply chain alliances from the “economic” pillar of supply chain enterprise management sustainability, which provides a theoretical basis for the cooperation and benefit redistribution of cross-regional supply chain enterprises under uncertain environments.