Evolutionary Game Analysis of Co-opetition Relationship between Regional Logistics Nodes

Abstract

The evolutionary game of co-opetition relationship between regional logistics nodes is studied in this paper. Areplicator dynamic model is built to obtain the Evolutionary Stable Strategy (ESS) of the game. Then, according to thestatus and level of logistics nodes, the symmetric and asymmetric game models based on evolutionary game theoryare proposed, respectively. The former is used to analyze the changing trends of co-opetition relationship betweenlogistics nodes from a same layer of a logistics network. While the latter can be used to deal with the relationshipforecasting problems between logistics nodes from different layers. The result of the case study reveals that theproposed models have good practicability and accuracy in dealing with the relationship forecasting problems within aregional logistics network.