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JOURNAL OF BUSINESS & INDUSTRIAL MARKETING
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EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1108/JBIM-05-2023-0285
关键词
Asymmetric preference; Quality threshold; Channel decision-making; Non-cooperative game analysis; B2B Manufacturer-Stackelberg supply chain
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This study examines B2B channel decision-making in a non-cooperative supply chain with different product qualities. It reveals the relationship between channel structure and product quality.
Purpose - The consumers want to purchase the target products in the right place, whereas the manufacturers want to allocate their possible products to optimal distribution channels. The manufacturer must know how to handle itself in this business. The study aims to examine the B2B channel decision-making with different product qualities in a non-cooperative supply chain. Design/methodology/approach - The authors develop a B2B Manufacturer-Stackelberg game as an analytical framework, combining asymmetric preference of purchase channels choice by the consumers, a continuous quality setting of the manufacturer and differential channel structure to study the manufacturer's product strategy and channel optimisation. By horizontal comparisons across four channel structures, product variety can be classified into the differential quality-level zone through exogenous quality intervention, and the preference of manufacturers in each quality-level zone within the structures can be ranked. Findings - Theoretically and practically, the hybrid-channel structure should be completely neglected when the direct channel dominates the retail channel. In contrast, dual-channel structures dominate single channels irrespective of the channel power, and channel preferences between high-quality and low-quality zones are stable, whereas the preference in medium-quality zone is unstable. In addition, the supply chain system cannot achieve global Pareto improvement without any additional coordination mechanism between the manufacturer and the retailer. Originality/value - The extended results by numerical examples suggest that the bigger the area of the medium-quality zone, the more significant the product variety of the manufacturer.
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