The Procurement Perspectives of Fruits and Vegetables Supply Chain Planning

Supply chain planning in the fruits and vegetables (FV) supply chains, dealing with short life cycled products in a competitive marketplace, integrates the complex network farmers, food processing and supply to end customers to enhance operations effectiveness

Elements of paradoxes in supply chain management literature: A systematic literature review

This study reports the results of a systematic literature review investigating paradoxes in supply chain management. This issue is important because supply chain practitioners frequently face paradoxes in industry with little direction provided in supply chain literature. Investigating the years 1997 through 2019, we identified 64 articles as the basis of our research containing a total of 68 unique paradoxes. In identifying the paradox elements (PEs), we adopted paradox theory (PT) as the base theoretical approach, which was utilized in only 7 of the articles. We employed contingency theory, institutional complexity theory, and complexity theory to support our findings. For each paradox, we also extracted and summarized managerial insights for practitioners. This study addresses the emergent needs of investigating paradoxes in the supply chain management domain to extend the use of PT and complementary theories that can aid practitioners in how to efficiently manage the paradoxes they encounter in industry

Game Theory Relaunched

The game is on. Do you know how to play? Game theory sets out to explore what can be said about making decisions which go beyond accepting the rules of a game. Since 1942, a well elaborated mathematical apparatus has been developed to do so; but there is more. During the last three decades game theoretic reasoning has popped up in many other fields as well - from engineering to biology and psychology. New simulation tools and network analysis have made game theory omnipresent these days. This book collects recent research papers in game theory, which come from diverse scientific communities all across the world; they combine many different fields like economics, politics, history, engineering, mathematics, physics, and psychology. All of them have as a common denominator some method of game theory. Enjoy

Capacity Management in Decentralized Networks

Bottleneck analysis is a useful tool in capacity planning for centrally controlled network systems. However, under a decentralized network where individual users are allowed to select their own routes, straightforward application of bottleneck analysis does not necessarily yield an optimal performance. It may even hurt the system performanceÔan aspect of Braess's paradox. We investigate the capacity expansion problem for a decentralized system with general network topology. To this end, we first discuss the short-run problem and show that the externality pricing solves the joint problem of demand and routing control. We then study the capacity expansion/reduction problem for decentralized systems that may or may not be optimally controlled in the short run.bottleneck analysis, braess's paradox, nash equilibrium, externality pricing, queueing network