Collaboration, bargaining, and fairness concern for a green apparel supply chain: an emerging economy perspective

Abstract

The green apparel production in the emerging economy countries is facing several issues such as collaboration practices, profitability concerns of the firms, etc. In this context, we present the collaboration mechanism using greening cost sharing contract and profit sharing contract for a dyadic green apparel supply chain of an emerging economy country. Next, we demonstrate the bargaining process between the supply chain members for both contracts. Further, we investigate the impact of the fairness concern of the supply chain members on the greening and pricing decisions. We perform a rigorous numerical analysis and discuss the managerial insights.