This paper investigates how retailers’ fairness concerns affect cooperative relationships in a three-party sustainable supply chain (TSSC) and how to coordinate such a supply chain when the degree of fairness concern is treated as an interval. Utilizing the Nash equilibrium strategy, this study seeks equilibrium solutions and profits under five non-cooperative and cooperative models and reveals that fairness concerns indeed affect members’ decisions and their cooperation for sustainable supply chain management. Furthermore, we develop a novel coordination method by incorporating the interval-valued least square pre-nucleolus (IVLSPN) approach and the three-party Nash bargaining game model to perfectly coordinate this TSSC.

本文研究了零售商关注公平的问题如何影响三方可持续供应链（TSSC）中的合作关系，以及当公平关注的程度被视为一个间隔时，如何协调这样的供应链。利用纳什均衡策略，本研究在五个非合作与合作模型下寻求均衡解决方案和利润，并揭示了公平性的担忧确实会影响成员的决策及其在可持续供应链管理方面的合作。此外，我们通过结合区间值最小二乘前核仁（IVLSPN）方法和三方Nash讨价还价博弈模型来完美地协调此TSSC，从而开发出一种新颖的协调方法。