Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
Volume 244, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2021.108368
Keywords
Channel encroachment; Logistics integration; E -commerce; Platform service supply chain
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundationof China [71771053, 72101039, 72171047]
- Key Research and Development Plan (Modern Agriculture) of Jiangsu Province [BE2018385]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20201144]
- Ministry of Education Project of Hu-manities and Social Sciences of China [21YJC630039]
- Key Project of Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [21GLA002]
- Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing [cstc2021jcyj-msxmX0780]
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This paper examines the impacts of manufacturer's channel encroachment and e-commerce platform's logistics integration on the e-commerce platform service supply chain. The study finds that the platform's complete logistics integration benefits the entire supply chain, regardless of whether the manufacturer implements online channel encroachment or not. Surprisingly, a partial logistics integration strategy outperforms the complete strategy for the manufacturer and the supply chain as a whole, but underperforms for the platform. Two coordination mechanisms are proposed to achieve a three-win situation.
This paper considers an e-commerce platform service supply chain (PSSC) consisting of a manufacturer, an e -commerce platform, and a possible third-party logistics service company (3 PL) and aims to explore the impacts of the manufacturer's channel encroachment and the e-commerce platform's logistics integration. Our research pinpoints that no matter whether the manufacturer implements an online channel encroachment or not, the platform's complete logistics integration strategy benefits the whole supply chain and its members. Counter-intuitively, we propose a partial logistics integration strategy, which outperforms the complete logistics inte-gration strategy for the manufacturer and the entire PSSC. However, it underperforms the complete logistics integration strategy for the platform, even worse than the logistics outsourcing strategy in some situations. We further design two coordination mechanisms to achieve a three-win situation. Lastly, we find that the platform's complete (or partial) logistics integration strategy can effectively deter the manufacturer's channel encroach-ment under certain conditions. Besides, the manufacturer's offline channel encroachment would hurt himself when the logistics service efficiency is relatively high. Under an information asymmetry setting, it shows that a larger gap between two logistics cost states would discourage the manufacturer from implementing a channel encroachment strategy.
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