Article ID: | iaor20032909 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 38E |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 281 |
End Page Number: | 303 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2002 |
Journal: | Transportation Research. Part E, Logistics and Transportation Review |
Authors: | Nagurney Anna, Dong June, Zhang Ding |
Keywords: | networks |
In this paper, an equilibrium model of a competitive supply chain network is developed. Such a model is sufficiently general to handle many decision-makers and their independent behaviors. The network structure of the supply chain is identified and equilibrium conditions are derived. A finite-dimensional variational inequality formulation is established. Qualitative properties of the equilibrium model and numerical examples are given.