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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2025, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (8): 189-197.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2022.2670

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The Impact of Emergency Supplies Quantitative Differences and Social Factors on the Fair Perceptions of Victims: An Empirical Study

Jianfang Shao, Yu Fan(), Xihui Wang, Liang Liang   

  1. International Institute of Finance,School of Management,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026 China
  • Received:2022-12-13 Revised:2023-02-21 Online:2025-08-25 Published:2025-09-10
  • Contact: Yu Fan E-mail:fanyu@ustc.edu.cn

Abstract:

The fair allocation of the emergency supplies is one of the most important concerns of victims after the occurrence of disasters. A fair allocation not only helps calm down the victims and keep the order in disaster-affected areas, but also avoids the waste of emergency resources. However, a fair allocation does not mean giving the exact same amount of relief supplies to each victim. Instead, decision-makers should consider the demand and preferences of victims and make allocations based on them. Hence, in this paper, the authors adopt inequity aversion as the measurement of fairness from the perspective of ‘people-centered’, which avoids the situation that decisions made are not in line with the reality. Inequity aversion is a widely studied concept in economics and social psychology, which mainly measures the degree that people dislike inequal allocation. Through online investigation, the factors that might have impacts on the fair perceptions of victims are analyzed. It is found: (1) Quantitative differences in the allocation of emergency supplies, the income, gender, education and age of victims have significant impacts on the inequity aversion of victims. (2) When the quantitative differences are small, the social factors (the gender, income, age and education of victims) do not have significant impacts on the inequity aversion of victims. However, with the increase of the quantitative differences, the impacts will gradually become significant. Based on the result of analysis, suggestions are provided to decision-making of resource allocation in emergency logistics, which helps mitigate the impact of negative emotions of victims on the relief operations.

Key words: emergency logistics, relief items allocation, inequity aversion

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