Horizontal Coordination of I-LNGOs in the Humanitarian Supply Chain: An Evolutionary Game Approach release_t3rsgg6i6fcivnwn4o66zf74ca

by Fan Chen, Sen Liu, Andrea Appolloni

Published in Sustainability by MDPI AG.

2020   Volume 12, Issue 15, p5953

Abstract

Disasters accompanied by heavy casualties and huge economic losses directly result in the disruption or delay of economic development. Considering the urgent need for reducing losses and accelerating the process of social recovery, international nongovernment organizations (INGOs) and local NGOs (LNGOs) with different resource endowments should achieve organizational coordination to improve the relief efficiency and sustainability of the humanitarian supply chain. Due to conflicting interests and expectations, this coordination is hard to achieve. In this study, we first establish an evolutionary game model between INGOs and LNGOs to determine the influencing factors and explore the interaction of NGOs in a dynamic way. Our results show that: (1) coordination by resource sharing can improve the sustainability of the humanitarian supply chain; (2) coordination willingness is affected by the behavior of other players, which can nevertheless achieve equilibrium under certain conditions; and (3) the important factors and optimal strategies of players are highlighted in the dynamic model. This study provides several insights into the theory of organizational coordination in the humanitarian supply chain regarding sustainability.
In application/xml+jats format

Archived Files and Locations

application/pdf  2.8 MB
file_r4zwassxjjcxdobkhdsck4jdku
res.mdpi.com (publisher)
web.archive.org (webarchive)
application/pdf  545.8 kB
file_labg6llb7ffkrfavh6rsda5ehe
art.torvergata.it (web)
web.archive.org (webarchive)
Read Archived PDF
Preserved and Accessible
Type  article-journal
Stage   published
Date   2020-07-23
Language   en ?
Container Metadata
Open Access Publication
In DOAJ
In ISSN ROAD
In Keepers Registry
ISSN-L:  2071-1050
Work Entity
access all versions, variants, and formats of this works (eg, pre-prints)
Catalog Record
Revision: 5b227cdf-f8a0-480c-a26f-af8434879b04
API URL: JSON