Horizontal Coordination of I-LNGOs in the Humanitarian Supply Chain: An Evolutionary Game Approach
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School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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School of Logistics, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming 650221, China
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Department of Management and Law, Faculty of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
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Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development (IRISS), National Research Council (CNR), 80134 Naples, Italy
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Sustainability 2020, 12(15), 5953; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12155953
Received: 21 May 2020 / Revised: 7 July 2020 / Accepted: 7 July 2020 / Published: 23 July 2020
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.
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Keywords:
sustainability; humanitarian supply chain; NGO; coordination; evolutionary game
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Chen, F.; Liu, S.; Appolloni, A. Horizontal Coordination of I-LNGOs in the Humanitarian Supply Chain: An Evolutionary Game Approach. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5953. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12155953
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Chen F, Liu S, Appolloni A. Horizontal Coordination of I-LNGOs in the Humanitarian Supply Chain: An Evolutionary Game Approach. Sustainability. 2020; 12(15):5953. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12155953
Chicago/Turabian StyleChen, Fan, Sen Liu, and Andrea Appolloni. 2020. "Horizontal Coordination of I-LNGOs in the Humanitarian Supply Chain: An Evolutionary Game Approach" Sustainability 12, no. 15: 5953. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12155953
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