Equilibrium Conditions In Service Supply Chain

Service supply chain features human players as service vendor, service integrator, customer and service resource. It tends to be digitally connected, such as consulting, e-business and integrated enterprises. Our study uses a formal model and simulations to develop the effect of a service supply chain on equilibrium computation. Two insights arise on how a network can obtain equilibrium computation: forming the network structure of service supply chain; exploring entities behavior and equilibrium conditions. These results highlight the importance for service supply chain of adapting its network structure to equilibrium and application. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of [CEIS 2011]