Game Theory for Supply Chain Analysis

Game Theory explains the behaviour or decision of multiple players in the system. Hence game theory  is a powerful approach for supply chain analysis. The following are some of useful  links for using game theory to analyse the supply chains.

General Information about Game Theory 

• Game theory society (website)
• Game theory Wikipedia
• Game theory books (Gametheorystrategies.com)
• Game Theory
  by Theodore L. Turocy (Texas A&M) and Bernhard von Stengel (LSE)
• Economic Analysis of Conflict (pdf)
  by Todd Sandler (MIT)
• A Chronology of Game Theory
  by Paul Walker
• John Nash: Founder of Modern Game Theory
  by Avinash Dixit

Books

• “Theory of Games and Economic Behavior” (Complete Online Edition) – A must

Courses

• Econ 159: Game Theory (iTune and course materials)
  by Professor Ben Polak
  Yale open course
• Game Theoretic Models for Supply Chain Management
  Summer course materials by Dr. Mahmut Parlar

Reviews

• Game theory in supply chain analysis
  by Gerard P. Cachon and Serguei Netessine (The Wharton School)
• Supply chain coordination; A Game Theory approach
  by Jean-Claude Hennet and Yasemin Arda

Applications

• Stochastic kinetics, game theory, and octave
  by James B. Rawlings
• Improving performance of supply chains using game theory, cooperation and MPC (presentation in PDF)
  by Kaushik Subramanian
• Supply Chain Coordination with Contracts (pdf)
  by Gerard P. Cachon
• Competing Manufacturers in a Retail Supply Chain: On Contractual Form and Coordination (pdf)
  by Gerard P. Cachon

Supply Chian Games

• Part 1: Modified beer games and Seasonal S&OP and iPad negotiation
  By Jonah Saint McIntire
• Part2: Reputation vs Governance, The price war
  By Jonah Saint McIntire

Software

• Gambit: Software Tools for Game Theory
  by McKelvey, Richard D., McLennan, Andrew M., and Turocy, Theodore L.
• games package for R
  its paper “Estimating Models of Strategic Interaction in R”
  by Brenton Kenkel and Curtis S. Signorino
• GamePLan
  by Jean-Pierre Langlois
• Dynamo: Diagrams for Evolutionary Game Dynamics
  by Bill Sandholm, Emin Dokumaci, and Francisco Franchetti