| Article ID: | iaor20032909 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 38E |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 281 |
| End Page Number: | 303 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2002 |
| Journal: | Transportation Research. Part E, Logistics and Transportation Review |
| Authors: | Nagurney Anna, Dong June, Zhang Ding |
| Keywords: | networks |
In this paper, an equilibrium model of a competitive supply chain network is developed. Such a model is sufficiently general to handle many decision-makers and their independent behaviors. The network structure of the supply chain is identified and equilibrium conditions are derived. A finite-dimensional variational inequality formulation is established. Qualitative properties of the equilibrium model and numerical examples are given.