Coopetitive Supply Chain Relationship Model: Application to the Smartphone Manufacturing Network.

ABSTRACT: Previous researches for understanding supply chain relationship have mostly focused on its vertical collaboration between buyers and suppliers. However, there have been some instances of volatile and stable collaborative relationships amongst competitors such as Apple-Samsung product manufacturer-component supplier relationship and airline alliances, respectively, which is recognized as coopetition. Even though there have been several qualitative studies and a number of game theory models on coopetition, it is rare to find any attempts on quantitative characterization of such coopetitive dynamic behavior in supply chain relationship. Hence, in this work, we formulated a MINLP model mathematically representing coopetitive relationships in a cost efficient supply chain network. In particular

SUBMITTER: Kwok JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4506052 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature