This paper surveys some applications of cooperative game theory to supply chain
management. Special emphasis is placed on two important aspects of cooperative games …

Supply chain management is related to the coordination of materials, products and
information flows among suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers and customers …

How should the excess profit because of inventory pooling be shared amongst firms at
different levels along the supply chain? Suppose each of several retailers observes local …

In this paper, we present a unified approach to study a class of cooperative games arising
from inventory centralization. The optimization problems corresponding to the inventory …

In the past, research in operations management focused on single-firm analysis. Its goal was
to provide managers in practice with suitable tools to improve the performance of their firm …

Current electricity tariffs do not reflect the real costs that a customer incurs to a supplier, as
units are charged at the same rate, regardless of the consumption pattern. In this paper, we …

Consider a distribution system consisting of a set of retailers facing a single-period price-
dependent demand of a single product. By taking advantage of the risk-pooling effect and …

This paper uses concepts taken from Cooperative Game Theory to model the incentives to
join forces among a group of agents involved in collaborative provision of a mobile app …

This study investigates whether a group of independent agricultural producers willingly
forms a coalition to jointly cope with yield uncertainty in contract farming. The agricultural …

The presented work combines two areas of research: cooperative game theory and lot size
optimization. One of the most essential problems in cooperations is to allocate cooperative …