庆祝东北财经大学建校70 周年系列学术论坛 — 钱小燕

时间：2022-09-05  阅读量：998次

报告题目：Contractual Coordination of Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives with Quality Provisions

报告时间：2022年9月21日（周三）下午14:00-16:00

报告地点：腾讯会议（Meeting ID: 463-829-275）

主办单位：东北财经大学管理科学与工程学院

【报告摘要】

With increasing concerns about the quality and safety of agricultural products, many agricultural cooperatives (co-ops) have begun to specify quality provisions in contracts with farmers. Correspondingly, they are pooling products to quality-differentiated markets and offering quality-differentiated prices to farmers in multiple stages. This work proposes a two-stage stochastic program to study the quality coordination problem in a setting where a co-op specifies a quality standard and offers a multi-stage payment scheme in its contract with multiple farmers who can exert quality-related effort and also show preference towards prompt payment timing. We first analyze a commonly adopted payment scheme, the pooling payment scheme, and then propose an improved payment scheme, the upfront incentive (UI) payment scheme. We find that the pooling payment scheme is able to coordinate the supply chain only when farmers’ time preference is higher than a threshold; otherwise, the scheme leads to the problem of over-motivation with respect to effort. However, the UI payment scheme can coordinate the supply chain unconditionally and is also robust to farmers heterogeneous in farm size. We further conduct two extensions including farmers heterogeneous in farm size and dynamic market size. The results provide guidance on a co-op’s contract design, including quality provision and payment mechanisms in multiple periods.

【报告人简介】

Xiaoyan Qian is an Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management in the School of Management Science and Engineering at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics in China. Xiaoyan received her Ph.D. at the University of Auckland business school in 2017, New Zealand. Xiaoyan’s research interests include agriculture supply chain, stochastic models, dynamic programming. Her research currently focuses on the modelling contracts and incentives in agricultural coops with an emphasis on operational and financial decisions. She has published in academic journals including Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, European Journal of Operations Research, and International Journal of Production Research.