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Pricing policies of a dynamic green supply chain with strategies of retail service

Shan Chen (National Research Base of Intelligent Manufacturing Service, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, China)
Fuli Zhou (School of Economics and Management, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou, China)
Jiafu Su (National Research Base of Intelligent Manufacturing Service, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, China)
Longxiao Li (Chongqing University, Chongqing, China)
Biyu Yang (Chongqing University, Chongqing, China)
Yandong He (Research Center on Modern Logistics, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China)

Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics

ISSN: 1355-5855

Article publication date: 4 May 2020

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Abstract

Purpose

The paper investigates firms' optimal pricing policies and green strategies in a dynamic green supply chain with consideration of different retail service strategies. The purpose of the paper is to address the following research questions: (1) What are the optimal pricing policies and green strategies of the dynamic decentralized supply chain with the competitive or supportive retail service? (2) How does the dynamic consumer's perception of green product affect these equilibrium solutions?

Design/methodology/approach

The paper establishes the dynamic game models and then derives a firm's instantaneous and steady-state feedback equilibrium solutions in three scenarios as follows: (1) the integrated supply chain; (2) the decentralized supply chain with competitive retail service and (3) the decentralized supply chain with supportive retail service. Finally, we conduct numerical analyses to compare the firm's instantaneous and steady-state equilibrium solutions and profit in the three scenarios.

Findings

The theoretical and numerical analysis results suggest that the supportive retail service is less inefficient than the competitive retail service in the decentralized supply chain and that the types of retail service have no influence on the green strategy. Moreover, a firm's myopia leads to lowering the greenness degree, retail service level and severe price competition, resulting in economic losses. Consumers’ initial perception of greenness degree determines whether the retailer should adopt the skimming pricing strategy or penetration pricing strategy. Furthermore, only when consumers’ perception of greenness degree is higher than a threshold, will the manufacturer produce green product with positive greenness degree.

Originality/value

This is one of few studies on the effect of different types of retail service on horizontal competition in green supply chain. The extension of the static study by adopting differential game approaches provides researchers with a deeper understanding of the application of retail service in green supply chain.

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Acknowledgements

Chongqing Technology Innovation and Application Demonstration Project x cstc2018jszx-cyzdX0143, Key Platform Open Projects of CTBU x 950219053, Postdoctoral fund Project of China x 2019M653385.

Citation

Chen, S., Zhou, F., Su, J., Li, L., Yang, B. and He, Y. (2020), "Pricing policies of a dynamic green supply chain with strategies of retail service", Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, Vol. 33 No. 1, pp. 296-329. https://doi.org/10.1108/APJML-07-2019-0423

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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