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Supply contracting and process innovation in a dynamic supply chain with information asymmetry

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  • Ni, Jian
  • Zhao, Jun
  • Chu, Lap Keung

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We investigate the process innovation and contracting decisions of a dynamic supply chain consisting of a supplier and a manufacturer, with the manufacturer possessing private information about her efficiency of process innovation. To overcome the potential adverse selection problem due to the asymmetric information, the supplier designs a menu of supply contracts that stipulates both the wholesale price and the purchasing quantity. We find that under information asymmetry, the supplier will optimally set a higher wholesale price but a lower purchasing quantity for the manufacturer with high innovation efficiency than that for the manufacturer with low innovation efficiency. As a consequence, the manufacturer with high innovation efficiency will significantly underinvest in innovation due to information asymmetry in addition to the impact of the double marginalization effect. Moreover, although a longer contract period tends to better motivate innovation, it can also magnify the influences of adverse selection on supply chain contracting, leading to a higher wholesale price for the manufacturer with high innovation efficiency.

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  • Ni, Jian & Zhao, Jun & Chu, Lap Keung, 2021. "Supply contracting and process innovation in a dynamic supply chain with information asymmetry," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 288(2), pages 552-562.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ejores:v:288:y:2021:i:2:p:552-562
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2020.06.008
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