Game analysis of the knowledge sharing mechanism for the supply chain collaborative innovation

<p class="p18"><strong><em><span lang="EN-US">Purpose: </span></em></strong><span lang="EN-US">In information economy era, innovation is the key to improve the competitiveness of enterprises. The traditional way of enterprise innovation is outdated and supply chain collaborative innovation has becoming popular. This paper aims to analyses the mechanism of knowledge sharing between enterprises in supply chain collaborative innovation.</span></p> <p class="p18"><strong><em><span lang="EN-US">Design/methodology/approach: </span></em></strong><span lang="EN-US">This paper analyzes the supply chain members’ willingness to share knowledge by using the game theory. And the result of knowledge sharing between two companies is analyzed by using the evolutionary game.</span></p> <p class="p18"><strong><em><span lang="EN-US">Findings: </span></em></strong><span lang="EN-US">We broke the knowledge sharing process in supply chain collaborative innovation into knowledge mining and knowledge transferring. We got the best knowledge sharing strategy of each supply chain member. We gave the influencing factors of knowledge sharing between members for the knowledge sharing mechanisms in supply chain collaborative innovation.</span></p> <p class="p18"><strong><em><span lang="EN-US">Research limitations/implications: </span></em></strong><span lang="EN-US">We didn’t study the willingness of more than two supply chain members to share knowledge and the result of knowledge sharing between them. And this situation is more realistic.</span></p> <p class="p18"><strong><em><span lang="EN-US">Practical implications: </span></em></strong><span lang="EN-US">Our findings can help to improve the effect of knowledge sharing in supply chain collaborative innovation.</span></p> <p class="p18"><strong><em><span lang="EN-US">Originality/value: </span></em></strong><span lang="EN-US">The paper introduces the game theory to knowledge sharing between members in supply chain collaborative innovation, deepens the understanding of knowledge sharing in supply chain collaborative innovation, and gives some interesting findings.</span>