【讲座预告】分享嘉宾：施春明 主题：Partial Centralization in a Durable-Good Supply Chain

标题：Partial Centralization in a Durable-Good Supply Chain

摘要：There has been extensive research on the strategic choice between supply chain centralization or decentralization. However, most research assumes complete centralization (CC) or complete decentralization (CD) and omits the commonly adopted supply chain structure of partial centralization (PC). With PC, a firm owns a portion but not all, of its partner. To help address this research gap, in this paper, we make a major contribution by explicitly analyzing PC in a supply chain where a durable-goods manufacturer owns a portion of her downstream retailer. We start with a two-period model and derive analytic equilibrium outcomes of the supply chain and its firms under CC, CD and PC. Our main analytic findings are two-fold. First, PC with an appropriate ownership share can moderate the retail quantities in each period and alleviate the time-inconsistency problem of durable goods. As a result, PC can become the equilibrium structure for a durable-good supply chain. Second, the manufacturer’s equilibrium ownership share in the retailer decreases in the product durability and decision horizon, implying that CD is more likely to be the equilibrium supply chain structure for higher product durability and longer decision horizon. Finally, we conduct numerical examples for longer decision horizons to confirm the robustness of our analytic results and obtain more managerial insights.

分享嘉宾：施春明

施春明博士于1994-1999年在中国科技大学获得工学和商学双学士，1999-2001年在新加坡国立大学获得工学硕士，2002-2007年在美国华盛顿州立大学获得商学博士，2007年起任教于加拿大劳瑞尔大学Lazaridis商学与经济学院，现为教授和博士生导师。他曾担任劳瑞尔大学供应链管理中心主任和加拿大管理学会的管理科学分会主席。主要研究方向为管理科学、运营管理、物流管理、供应链管理和大数据决策，研究成果发表在国际一流杂志包括IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management和European Journal of Operational Research。