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Supplier's investment in manufacturer's quality improvement with equity holding

Hong Fu 1,2, , Mingwu Liu 3, and  Bo Chen 1,,

1. 

School of Management, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
2. 

Key Laboratory of Process Optimization and Intelligent Decision-Making, Ministry of Education, Hefei 230009, China
3. 

School of Economics and Management, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China

* Corresponding author: Bo Chen, okchenbo@mail.ustc.edu.cn

Received  December 2018 Revised  April 2019 Published  October 2019

This paper considers a supply chain in which an upstream supplier sells a component to a downstream manufacturer facing a price and quality sensitive demand. The supplier has a chance to make investment in the manufacturer, which can not only enable the supplier to hold equity shares in the manufacturer and thus achieve profit sharing with the manufacturer, but also provide resources for the manufacturer to improve its product quality. Under any given investment strategy of the supplier, the equilibrium decisions of the two chain members on wholesale price and profit margin are characterized. Then, the supplier's optimal investment strategy is derived. The paper considers three competition models: supplier Stackelberg (SS), manufacturer Stackelberg (MS), and vertical Nash (VN) models, which correspond to different market power structures. The paper shows that the investment can always increase the market demand. Moreover, in both the SS and VN models, the value of the supplier's investment for the entire supply chain, comes from not only the quality improvement but also the profit sharing caused by equity holding; while in the MS model, the investment value comes only from the quality improvement.

Keywords: Supply chain management, quality improvement, equity holding, market power structure, game theory.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 90B30, 90B50; Secondary: 91A10.
Citation: Hong Fu, Mingwu Liu, Bo Chen. Supplier's investment in manufacturer's quality improvement with equity holding. Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization, doi: 10.3934/jimo.2019127
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G. Xie, W. Yue, S. Wang and K. K. Lai, Quality investment and price decision in a risk-averse supply chain, European J. Oper. Res., 214 (2011), 403-410.  doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2011.04.036.  Google Scholar

[45]

X. Xu, Optimal price and product quality decisions in a distribution channel, Management Sci., 55 (2009), 1347-1352.  doi: 10.1287/mnsc.1090.1023.  Google Scholar

[46]

D. Yang and T. Xiao, Coordination of a supply chain with loss-averse consumers in service quality, Internat. J. Produc. Res., 55 (2017), 3411-3430.  doi: 10.1080/00207543.2016.1241444.  Google Scholar

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J. Yu and S. Ma, Impact of decision sequence of pricing and quality investment in decentralized assembly system, J. Manufac. Systems, 32 (2013), 664-679.  doi: 10.1016/j.jmsy.2013.02.004.  Google Scholar

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K. Zhu, R. Q. Zhang and F. Tsung, Pushing quality improvement along supply chains, Management Sci., 53 (2007), 421-436.  doi: 10.1287/mnsc.1060.0634.  Google Scholar

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