Fair Distribution of Efficiency Gains in supply networks from a Cooperative Game theory Point of View

In this paper, the authors address the distribution of efficiency gains among partially autonomous supply networkactors in a manner they will accept as fair and as an incentive to cooperation. The problem is economicallysignificant because it requires substantiating efficiency gains in an understandable manner. Moreover, supplynetworks suffer from a conflict potential because the partially autonomous actors seek to maximize their ownshares of the efficiency gain. The method applied appropriates a model from cooperative game theory involvingthe τ-value. The special nature of the τ-value ensures that it seems rational to the actors to cooperate inthe supply network. The proposed method for the distribution problem offers a fair distribution of efficiencygains in the supply network and ensures that the distribution results can be communicated easily.