An Evolutionary Game Model Of Knowledge Sharing Behavior Between Supply Chain Partners

With the knowledge economy coming and becoming more popular, knowledge begin to replace other elements of competition to be the increasingly important elements of enterprise's core competitiveness of. Supply chain enterprises have found that it was difficult to meet their own needs and adapt to the rapidly changing environment by renewing and creating knowledge only by themselves. Knowledge sharing as an effective way to obtaining knowledge get more concern and attention. Current supply chain knowledge sharing research focuses on knowledge-sharing mechanisms, factors affecting knowledge sharing, knowledge sharing, policy research aspects and so on which from a static point of view to analyse knowledge sharing. Few studies illustrate the formation of knowledge-sharing process from a dynamic point of view.With review of related literatures on knowledge, knowledge sharing and supply chain theory, this paper build an evolutionary game model of knowledge sharing behavior between Supply Chain based on the scope of application and characteristics of evolutionary game theory. Use evolutionary game theory to explore the evolution approach of supply chain enterprise based on the analysis of different benefit due to members'strategy. According to different enterprise'benefit, game is divided into four cases, and there are only two evolutionary stable strategies at last.It is found that knowledge sharing, absorptive capacity, synergy and incentive mechanisms will promote knowledge-sharing behavior of members of the supply chain of production, and knowledge sharing costs and sharing risk behavior play a negative role in the process of knowledge sharing. In the end of this paper, suggestions are proposed in order to promote supply chain knowledge sharing by improve knowledge sharing factors which include strengthening communication and coordination, establishing protection mechanisms and improve enterprise's absorbing capacity.