Managing financing risk in capacity investment under green supply chain competition

Publication date: June 2019Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 143Author(s): Tao Wu, Li-Guo Zhang, Teng GeAbstractIn this paper, we study the asymmetric duopoly models of competing supply chains with financing risk. The financing risk of the green supply chain's capacity investment could be available as complete or incomplete information to the traditional supply chain. By analyzing and comparing the optimal quantities, optimal prices, and optimal profits of both cases, we find that the financing risk of capacity investment does not affect either chain's choices of equilibrium quantities and prices in the complete information case. If this information is incomplete for the traditional supply chain, financing risk plays an important role in determining optimal quantities and optimal prices, together with the lending interest rate. To encourage the use of environmentally friendly technologies, government should use per-unit subsidies if the green supply chain suffers the cost disadvantage, and should encourage financial institutions to provide preferential loans to the green supply chain that suffers manufacturing or retailing capacity restrictions.
Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change - Category: Science Source Type: research