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How altruism works: An evolutionary model of supply networks

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  • Ge, Zehui
  • Zhang, Zi-Ke
  • Lü, Linyuan
  • Zhou, Tao
  • Xi, Ning

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Recently, supply networks have attracted increasing attention from the scientific community. However, it lacks serious consideration of social preference in Supply Chain Management. In this paper, we develop an evolutionary decision-making model to characterize the effects of suppliers’ altruism in supply networks, and find that the performances of both suppliers and supply chains are improved by introducing the role of altruism. Furthermore, an interesting and reasonable phenomenon is discovered that the suppliers’ and whole network’s profits do not change monotonously with suppliers’ altruistic preference, η, but reach the best at η=0.6 and η=0.4, respectively. This work may shed some light on the in-depth understanding of the effects of altruism for both research and commercial applications.

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  • Ge, Zehui & Zhang, Zi-Ke & Lü, Linyuan & Zhou, Tao & Xi, Ning, 2012. "How altruism works: An evolutionary model of supply networks," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 391(3), pages 647-655.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:391:y:2012:i:3:p:647-655
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.08.063
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    1. Zhibing Lin, 2019. "Price and location competition in supply chain with horizontal altruistic retailers," Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, Springer, vol. 31(2), pages 255-278, June.
    2. Liu, Yong & Wang, Dong-dong & Xu, Qian, 2020. "A supply chain coordination mechanism with suppliers’ effort performance level and fairness concern," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 53(C).
    3. Fei Xu & Honglei Wang, 2018. "Competitive–Cooperative Strategy Based on Altruistic Behavior for Dual-Channel Supply Chains," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(6), pages 1-15, June.
    4. Deqing Ma & Jinsong Hu & Weihao Wang, 2021. "Differential game of product–service supply chain considering consumers’ reference effect and supply chain members’ reciprocity altruism in the online-to-offline mode," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 304(1), pages 263-297, September.
    5. Suo, Qi & Guo, Jin-Li & Sun, Shiwei & Liu, Han, 2018. "Exploring the evolutionary mechanism of complex supply chain systems using evolving hypergraphs," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 489(C), pages 141-148.
    6. Wang, Yuyan & Yu, Zhaoqing & Jin, Mingzhou & Mao, Jiafu, 2021. "Decisions and coordination of retailer-led low-carbon supply chain under altruistic preference," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 293(3), pages 910-925.

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