Industrial Engineering Journal ›› 2012, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (4): 108-113.

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Risk Transmission Analysis of Social Responsibility in Supply Chain

  

  1. (Faculty of Economy and Trad,Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou 510665,China)
  • Online:2012-08-31 Published:2012-09-19

Abstract: For a multilayer supply chain, a network model with multilayer topology is built in the perspective of core enterprises. Also, a conceptual model for social responsibility risk transmission is presented. Then, a mathematic model of social responsibility risk transmission in the supply chain is derived. The effectiveness of this model is verified by analysis for the dairy industry in China. Results show that, with the topological structure given in this paper and node self-adaptability, the supply chain has not only the general characteristics, such as transitivity, but also others as transformation, controllability, feedback, complexity, and nonlinearity as well. The complexity leads to the emergence of social responsibility risks.

Key words: social responsibility, supply chain, risk transmission