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Download Article (PDF) Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, volume 106 Fourth International Conference on Economic and Business Management (FEBM 2019) An Evolutionary Game Analysis of Information Sharing Behavior for Cluster Supply Chain Yang Ye* Zhipeng Ju Yue Li Management Science and Management Science and Tulane University Engineering Engineering A.B Freeman School Shanxi University of Finance and Shanxi University of Finance and New Orleans, USA Economics Economics [email protected] Taiyuan, China Taiyuan, China [email protected] [email protected] Abstract—From the perspective of evolutionary game, this paper demonstrates the internal mechanism and evolution II. MODEL process of information sharing among horizontal enterprises in the cluster supply chain. Our results show that the number of A. Model Variables and Assumptions information sharing, the marginal benefit of information sharing, The cooperation between supply chain enterprises in the ability of information absorption, the incentive coefficient industrial clusters is a cooperative game behavior based on the and the penalty coefficient for “free-riding behavior” are goal of maximizing public interest. Horizontal enterprises in positively promoted to the information sharing behavior of the cluster supply chain can establish a relatively stable enterprises in the supply chain. However, the marginal cost and synergy relationship with cooperation. In the supply chain risk coefficient of information sharing have a negative impact. Based on these influencing factors and the problem existing in network, manufacturers, retailers, and distributors generate the information sharing, the paper puts forward some complex network structures. To simplify the supply chain suggestions to strengthen the awareness of enterprise information network, we assume that there are two parallel supply chains. sharing, improve the information absorption capacity, establish At the same time, we study the information sharing behavior of an information sharing mechanism, and promote the coordinated horizontal enterprises in the supply chain. development of enterprises. Hypothesis 1: Supply chain companies make bounded rational decisions. Keywords—supply chain; information sharing; evolutionary game Hypothesis 2: Information sharing in the process of supply chain enterprises is based on the sharing of demand information. There are also production information and I. INTRODUCTION inventory information in the supply chain. Therefore, Industry cluster, a kind of carrier of regional economic information asymmetry and incomplete information decision development, provides a new driver force of cooperate still exist. innovation for the enterprises in the supply chain [1-3]. As The variables are set as follows: continuously upgrading and transforming, industry cluster accelerates the speed of assembling homogeneous enterprises B. Model Establishment of Evolutionary Game in the horizontal supply chain, forming relationship between upstream and downstream enterprises, and coupling into the When enterprises in the supply chain play a game of industry cluster supply chain [4, 5]. It would be better to information sharing cooperation, both Enterprise 1 and integrate high-quality resources inside and outside the Enterprise 2 can share information or not share. Therefore, we enterprises and boost competitiveness of supply chain, can get four combination strategies. We assume that the because of synergy effect that caused by information sharing probability that enterprise 1 chooses “information sharing” is x, mechanism among horizontal enterprises [6-9]. However, as then the probability of selecting “no information sharing” is 1-x; future development of technology and informatization, slow similarly, if enterprise 2 chooses “information sharing” with a response and poor level of trust trouble the enterprises in the probability of y, then the probability of choosing “no supply chain. The research on the behavior of information information sharing” is 1-y. The supply chain structure is sharing will provide new theoretical basis and new idea for shown as Fig. 1. improving the synergy ability of China's industrial cluster supply chain. Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). 235 Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, volume 106 a) When , If 0, . 0 is the evolutionary stability strategy of enterprise 1. Therefore, enterprises tend not to share information. b) When , If Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of information sharing between horizontal . 0 is the evolutionary stability enterprises in a cluster supply chain strategy of enterprise 1. If . 1 is the evolutionary stability strategy of enterprise 1. At this time, enterprise 1 chooses to share information. TABLE I. PARAMETERS AND DEFINITIONS 2) Stability analysis of enterprise 2 strategy: Suppose that Notation Definition the expected return of enterprise 2 selecting "information ti Number of information sharing sharing" is , the expected return of selecting "no si Information sharing marginal revenue coefficient information sharing" is . The average expected return of enterprise 2 selecting “information sharing” and “non- ci Information sharing marginal cost factor information sharing” is . mi Information absorption coefficient n Information sharing risk coefficient i a Information sharing incentive coefficient i bi the penalty coefficient for “free rider” behavior When , is the stable point of the replication TABLE II. ENTERPRISE INCOME MATRIX dynamic equation. Since the stability strategy of evolutionary game is anti-interference, is the stable strategy of Business 1 evolutionary game when and . No sharing (1- Sharing(y) y) Sharing s m t +a t -n t -c t -n t -c t 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Business (x) s m t +a t -n t -c t s m t - b s m t 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 When , then , , No sharing s1m1t2- b1s1m1t2 0,0 (1-x) -n t -c t 2 2 2 2 a) When , If 0, C. Evolutionary Game Model Analysis . 0 is the evolutionary stability strategy 1) Stability analysis of enterprise 1 strategy: Suppose that of enterprise 1. Therefore, enterprises tend not to share the expected return of enterprise 1 selecting "information information. sharing" is , the expected return of selecting "no b) When , If information sharing" is . The average expected return of . 0 is the evolutionary stability enterprise 1 selecting “information sharing” and “non- strategy of enterprise 1. If . information sharing” is . 1 is the evolutionary stability strategy of enterprise 1. At this time, enterprise 2 chooses to share information. 3) Stability analysis of strategies between both parties: The dynamic system of the evolutionary game of information sharing between enterprise 1 and enterprise 2 is formed by the combination of equations (1) and (2). When , is the stable point of the replication dynamic equation. Since the stability strategy of evolutionary For the convenience of computing, we set game is anti-interference, is the stable strategy of evolutionary game when and . , ; = , At this time, the evolutionary game of the horizontal supply chain of the cluster supply chain under information sharing has When , then , ， the following four situations. a) When : the phase diagram can be simulated by the dynamic equation of the game. It can be seen from Fig. 2 that after repeated game between enterprise 1 and enterprise 2, they choose not to share information, so they 236 Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, volume 106 converge to (0,0). The evolutionary game stabilization strategy When : When the strategy converges to of enterprise 1 and enterprise 2 is for information sharing. C(0,0) and B(1,1), the stability strategy is that both enterprise 1 When : As can be seen from Fig. 3, and 2 choose to share information or not, but the stability enterprise 2 is still in the same situation as Case 1 and chooses strategy is unique. The ultimate stabilization strategy depends to use the information sharing strategy. However, the choice of on the initial willingness of enterprise 1 and 2 to share enterprise 1 changes with the evolution stage. In the initial information. As shown in Fig. 5, when the initial willingness stage, when , the proportion of information sharing of enterprise 1 and 2 is in the area BECD in equations 5, the evolutionary game will converge to D (1, 1). At this time, the strategies selected by enterprise 2 increases with the evolution stability strategy of the evolutionary game is that enterprise 1 of the game; when , the enterprise 1 finds that the and 2 choose to share information. When the initial willingness benefit of not sharing information is greater than the benefit of of Enterprise 1 and Enterprise 2 is in the area ACDE, the sharing information. Therefore, the strategy gradually evolutionary game converges to A (0,0). At this time, the stable converges to (0, 0). The final evolutionary game stabilization strategy of the evolutionary game is that enterprise 1 and 2 strategy still does not share information. choose not to share information. When : As can be seen from Fig. 4, The impact of various factors on the evolutionary game is enterprise 1 is still in the same situation as case 1, and still as follows. chooses to use the information sharing strategy. However, the choice of enterprise 2 changes with the evolution stage. In the The amount of information sharing . When both initial stage, When , with the evolution
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