Game Analysis on Collaborative Quality Improvement of Supply Chain*
Quality improvement plays a key role for customer loyalty. Due to competition shifting from between enterprises to between supply chains, the collaborative quality improvement of supply chain becomes a hot topic of quality management. In order to analyze the mechanism of how the core collaboration of quality improvement in supply chain, this paper has constructed game models including one manufacturer and its two suppliers, and the equilibriums have been given. The result of this study indicates that if the manufacturer promises to continuously improve quality but promise no specific improvement scheme, and permits the suppliers to participate in the activities of manufacturers quality improvement, the quality improvement of supply chain will be more effective. Furthermore, the benefit and risk sharing between the supplier and the manufacturer in the process of quality improvement is analyzed. It indicates that, if the suppliers believe they can predict the direction of quality improvement and can put forward design plans, they will risk their cooperation with other manufacturers which select price as purchasing standard.
Game Theory Collaborative Quality Improvement Supply Chain
Zhang Xin Wang Gaoshan
Information Management School, Shandong Economic University, Jinan, P.R China, 250014
国际会议
郑州
英文
2008-09-20（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）