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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2023, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (11): 195-207.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2021.1137

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Altruistic Preference of Shipping Company and Vertical Cooperation in Shipping Supply Chain

Jian LI,Jin-yang SHI,Bao JIANG()   

  1. School of Economics,Ocean University of China,Qingdao 266100,China
  • Received:2021-06-07 Revised:2021-11-20 Online:2023-11-15 Published:2023-12-05
  • Contact: Bao JIANG E-mail:jiangbao@ouc.edu.cn

Abstract:

In the world's shipping market, where demand fluctuates, both abundant marketing investment and market demand fluctuations impose dual cost pressures on shipping companies and shipping agency companies. As a result, shipping agency companies can be incentivized by shipping companies' ‘altruistic’ behavior to maintain their market share and competitiveness. A risk-averse shipping supply chain, comprised of a single shipping company and a single shipping agency company, is studied in this paper. The influence of shipping companies' "altruistic preferences" on shipping market decision-making and vertical cooperation within the shipping supply chain is analyzed using a Stackelberg game model.By comparing the benefits of centralized decision-making, decentralized decision-making, and altruistic preference decision-making, the main results demonstrate that: 1) Altruistic behaviors of shipping companies will encourage shipping agency companies to increase the marketing investment for expanding markets demand, which will enhance the overall profitability and competitiveness of the shipping supply chain; 2) Even the effect is less than the ‘vertical alliance’, ‘altruistic preference’ of shipping companies can strengthen the vertical cooperation of shipping supply chain; 3) ‘Revenue sharing and cost sharing’ contract can realize coordination in the risk-averse shipping supply chain with more profit and stability of shipping supply chain; 4) The ‘altruistic preference’ of shipping companies can improve the flexibility of the coordination contract, which is benefit for the stability of the vertical cooperation in shipping supply chain.

Key words: shipping supply chain, shipping company, altruistic preference, contract coordination, risk aversion

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