Cooperation in Service Systems and Service Supply Chains
ABSTRACT
Yrd. Doç. Dr.
Ulaş Özen
2014 Grants Economics and Administrative Sciences
The recent European economic crisis showed that effective use of resources is more important than ever for sustainability
of companies. Inter-organizational cooperation is foreseen as a good opportunity to achieve further efficiency in operations
that companies require to stay competitive in a global economy. However, up to now, very little quantitative insights and
tools have been developed for managers that can actually help them in establishing such collaboration. In this proposed
research, we focus on the difficulties in collaboration of service systems from an economic point of view using the techniques
developed in the domain of Game Theory and Operations Research. Our ultimate aim is to create managerial insights that will
help the practitioners to form sustainable collaboration by devising tools and rules for stable and fair allocation of benefits.
As a fundamental step, the proposed research will investigate cooperative games of service systems and service supply
chains in which cooperation by sharing resources improve the systems performance (reduce cost or increase profit). There
are only a limited number of studies and little theoretical results in the literature that will help researcher to study these
cooperative systems in more detail. This proposal will fill this gap by developing a mathematical framework and theoretical
background that will help to characterise the cores of these games as much as possible and hopefully boost further research
in the area.
DEPARTMENT
Operations Management
CONTACT
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FUNDING SCHEME
EC Marie Curie Career
Integration Grants
ST IP