The Impact of Positive Externality on Returns Policy

摘要：

This paper studies the impact of positive externality upon a supply chain in which returns policy is used to coordinate the channel. We focus on a typical situation where the retailer can internalize the positive externality effect while the manufacturer can not. We find that the retailer will overstock than channel optimal quantity. When the effect of externality is stronger or returns compensation is greater, the retailers order quantity deviates more from channel optimal decision. When returns policy is offered,the positive externality effect will benefit the retailer but hurt the manufacturer.

关键词： Externality through sales Returns policy Newsvendor model Stochastic model

作者: Xu Chuanyong Liang Liang Gou Qinglong Zha Yong Zhou Chuiri

作者单位: School of Management, Univ.of Sci.& Tech.of China, Hefei 230026 P.R.China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第六届管理学国际会议(Proceedings of ICM2007 the 6th International on Management)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 260-268

在线出版日期: 2007-08-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）