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Green Product Design With Competition And Fairness Concerns In The Circular Economy Era, Qingying Li, Xiaotong Guan, Tianqin Shi, Wen Jiao Aug 2019

Green Product Design With Competition And Fairness Concerns In The Circular Economy Era, Qingying Li, Xiaotong Guan, Tianqin Shi, Wen Jiao

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In this paper, we consider green product design in a supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and two retailers, where retailer 1 aims at monetary profit maximisation, and retailer 2 has fairness concern. We consider two kinds of green products: a marginal-intensive green product (MIGP) and a development-intensive green product (DIGP). For the former, the green investment cost depends on the green level and the production quantity; while for the latter, the green investment cost depends on the green level solely. In each case, we investigate the impact of the retailer’s fairness concern by comparing the optimal solutions and supply …