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Cooperative advertising in a distribution channel with fairness concerns
► Co-op advertising can coordinate the channel with a fair-minded retailer. ► Co-op advertising may be detrimental to the retailer with fairness concerns. ► Effectiveness of co-op advertising may be amplified or shrunk by fairness concerns. ► Fairness concerns may lead to mixed effects on the equili...
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Published in: | European journal of operational research 2013-06, Vol.227 (2), p.401-407 |
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Main Authors: | , , , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | ► Co-op advertising can coordinate the channel with a fair-minded retailer. ► Co-op advertising may be detrimental to the retailer with fairness concerns. ► Effectiveness of co-op advertising may be amplified or shrunk by fairness concerns. ► Fairness concerns may lead to mixed effects on the equilibrium outcomes. ► Retailer’s fairness concerns can lead to a Pareto improvement for channel members.
Cooperative (co-op) advertising has been widely used in practice and employed as a strategy to improve the performance of a distribution channel. It is known from the existing models that co-op advertising could not achieve the channel coordination (i.e., maximize the total channel profit). In this paper, we consider a distribution channel consisting of a single manufacturer and a single retailer, and investigate the effect of the retailer’s fairness concerns. Applying the equilibrium analysis, we obtain the following results: (1) Channel coordination can be achieved if the retailer has fairness concerns and model parameters satisfy certain conditions. (2) Although both channel members become better off with co-op advertising if neither channel member has fairness concerns, we find situations where co-op advertising brings detrimental effects to the retailer if the retailer has fairness concerns. (3) The retailer’s fairness concerns may increase or decrease the equilibrium participation rate, the equilibrium advertising effort, and the equilibrium profit of the manufacturer and the whole channel. (4) We identify the conditions under which the effectiveness of co-op advertising can be improved or reduced by the retailer’s fairness concerns. As long as co-op advertising can bring extra profit to the manufacturer, the retailer’s fairness concerns could improve the effectiveness of the co-op advertising. (5) There exists a Pareto improvement for the profits of both the manufacturer and the retailer when a retailer without fairness concerns becomes fair-minded. |
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ISSN: | 0377-2217 1872-6860 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ejor.2012.12.011 |