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Competition between firms in a supply chain has largely been modeled using noncooperative game theory and the associated concepts of equilibrium that predict the outcomes. There are a few key differences between the industrial organization literature and the research in operations management. First of all, the operations literature looks more at operational variables, such as capacity and inventory, as a response to various sources of process uncertainty that any firm faces. The preferences of individual customers, their valuations and the construction of the specific form of the uncertainty is less of a concern (although more recent literature emphasize this). Second, the findings in the operations literature usually have the objective of improving individual firms\u2019 (and supply chains\u2019) profits and operational efficiencies rather than one of dictating economic policy. Third, although non-cooperative models are the norm, there is also an underlying emphasis in the operations literature on cooperation between firms in a supply chain to improve the overall profit of the supply chain. This is probably because, unlike the levers traditionally studied in economics, many operational variables in a supply chain are often jointly decided between firms. The goal of this review taps on this last sentiment. We provide an overview of some of the basic multi-firm models studied in supply chain management. We look at how the literature uses non-cooperative game theory to analyze these models. We then look at how some of these models can be analyzed using a cooperative bargaining framework. We compare the modeling tools and the insights one obtains by taking this twofold approach. This process also allows us to discuss a few topics of interest such as the relative channel power of a firm, the relative merits of using a non-cooperative game versus cooperative bargaining to model a supply chain setting, etc. Finally, we conclude this review by exploring some issues that remain unresolved and are topics for future research.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1561\/0200000016","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,5,18]],"date-time":"2012-05-18T06:16:22Z","timestamp":1337321782000},"page":"87-145","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Competition and Cooperative Bargaining Models in Supply Chains"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Fernando","family":"Bernstein","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Duke University The Fuqua School of Business, , Durham, NC 27708-0120,","place":["USA"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mahesh","family":"Nagarajan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business, , Vancouver, BC,","place":["Canada"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"140","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,5,15]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"2026033114273486700_ref001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"156","DOI":"10.1287\/opre.1100.0863","article-title":"Supply chain competition with multiple manufacturers and retailers","volume":"59","author":"Adida","year":"2011","journal-title":"Operations Research"},{"issue":"9","key":"2026033114273486700_ref002","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"819","DOI":"10.1080\/07408170008967441","article-title":"Risk intermediation in supply chains","volume":"32","author":"Agrawal","year":"2000","journal-title":"IIE Transactions"},{"issue":"4","key":"2026033114273486700_ref003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"777","DOI":"10.1287\/mnsc.1070.0829","article-title":"Quantity discounts under demand uncertainty","volume":"54","author":"Altintas","year":"2008","journal-title":"Management Science"},{"issue":"2","key":"2026033114273486700_ref004","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1287\/mnsc.45.2.178","article-title":"Centralization of stocks: Retailers vs. manufacturer","volume":"45","author":"Anupindi","year":"1999","journal-title":"Management Science"},{"key":"2026033114273486700_ref005","volume-title":"Quantitative Models of Supply Chain Management","author":"Anupindi","year":"1999"},{"key":"2026033114273486700_ref006","volume-title":"Essays in the Theory of Risk Bearing","author":"Arrow","year":"1965"},{"key":"2026033114273486700_ref007","volume-title":"Bargaining, Power, Tactics and Outcomes","author":"Bacharach","year":"1981"},{"key":"2026033114273486700_ref008","unstructured":"Baron, O., O.Berman, and D.Wu (2008). \u201cBargaining within the supply chain and its implication to coordination of supply chains in an industry\u201d. 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