Article ID: | iaor20083152 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 569 |
End Page Number: | 583 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2007 |
Journal: | Decision Support Systems |
Authors: | Minner Stefan |
Keywords: | game theory |
This paper analyzes horizontal cooperations between organizations that have the opportunity to jointly replenish material requirements. Two mechanisms are investigated, the search for short-term cooperations (e.g., via electronic markets) and long-term cooperations. The operations management context used in this paper is the economic order quantity model. Collaboration is analyzed by using bargaining concepts from non-cooperative and cooperative game theory.