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We formulate three fairness concern models: (1) the suppliers being peer-induced fairness conscious, (2) the distributor being distributional fairness conscious and (3) the suppliers being peer-induced fairness conscious and the distributor being distributional fairness conscious. Additionally, we extend the model to a duopoly distributors\u2019 environment.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Findings<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Firstly, we demonstrate that the previously established finding, which posits that upstream suppliers\u2019 peer-induced fairness concerns consistently benefits downstream retailers, is not applicable to mobile app supply chains. Secondly, in a duopoly suppliers\u2019 environment, any form of fairness concern among supply chain members negatively impacts their profitability while in a duopoly distributors\u2019 environment, the supply chain entities\u2019 fairness concern may exert positive effect on their profit. Thirdly, the distributor\u2019s profit may decrease with the network externality coefficient if the revenue retaining ratio and the distributor\u2019s cost coefficient are relatively low in a dual fairness concern scenario.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The authors originally explore the effect of both peer-induced and distributional fairness concern on competitive mobile app service supply chain, which has not been explored in the literature to the best of our knowledge.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/imds-09-2024-0934","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,15]],"date-time":"2025-09-15T15:42:43Z","timestamp":1757950963000},"page":"3103-3132","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The role of fairness concern in duopoly mobile app digital service supply 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