Effect and formulation of ecolabel policy: A perspective of green supply chain decision and coordination

Effect and formulation of ecolabel policy: A perspective of green supply chain decision and coordination | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Research Article Effect and formulation of ecolabel policy: A perspective of green supply chain decision and coordination Huan Zhang, Qingxin Li, Jianli Jiang This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2669595/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Published Journal Publication published 16 Jun, 2023 Read the published version in Environmental Science and Pollution Research → Version 1 posted 4 You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract The ecolabel policy is crucial for sustainable development of green supply chain. Considering manufacturer's reputation and consumer’s environmental awareness, this study proposes a few of game models to investigate the impact of the ecolabel policy on the green supply chain. Specifically, four different scenarios are investigated: centralized supply chain with/without certification and decentralized supply chain with/without certification. The results indicate that the ecolabel policy only functions below a threshold of the consumer’s environmental awareness which is higher in the decentralized situation. Only when choosing the certification standard as its green degree, can the manufacturer get the optimal profit. Aiming to maximize the environmental benefit, the optimal ecolabel standard in the centralized decision-making situation is higher than that in the decentralized ones. Furthermore, a wholesale price contract with the manufacturer's reputation is established to make both the product’s green degree and the whole environmental benefit reach the optimal level in a decentralized supply chain. Ecolabel policy Green products Manufacturer's reputation Consumer’s environmental awareness Supply chain coordination Stackelberg game Full Text Cite Share Download PDF Status: Published Journal Publication published 16 Jun, 2023 Read the published version in Environmental Science and Pollution Research → Version 1 posted Reviewers agreed at journal 30 Mar, 2023 Editor invited by journal 29 Mar, 2023 Editor assigned by journal 23 Mar, 2023 First submitted to journal 16 Mar, 2023 You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. Our growing team is made up of researchers and industry professionals working together to solve the most critical problems facing scientific publishing. Also discoverable on Platform About Our Team In Review Editorial Policies Advisory Board Help Center Resources Author Services Accessibility API Access RSS feed Manage Cookie Preferences © Research Square 2026 | ISSN 2693-5015 (online) Privacy Policy Terms of Service Do Not Sell My Personal Information {"props":{"pageProps":{"initialData":{"identity":"rs-2669595","acceptedTermsAndConditions":true,"allowDirectSubmit":false,"archivedVersions":[],"articleType":"Research Article","associatedPublications":[],"authors":[{"id":187688842,"identity":"c8245fce-d433-4f72-82d5-d79a91693e6e","order_by":0,"name":"Huan Zhang","email":"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAZAAAAAyAQMAAABI0h/eAAAABlBMVEX///8AAABVwtN+AAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAA8klEQVRIiWNgGAWjYBACAxDB2AAk2BtgYgnEauE5QLIWCbhKAlrMJZKfPfy5wy5PPvLtwQ8fdxxm4GfPMWD4uQO3FssZaeYGkmeSiw1v5yVLzjxzmEGy540BY+8ZPA67kWAmYdjGnLhxdo4ZM2/bYaBIjgEzYxs+LenfJBLb6hM3zjxjxvwXqMWesJYcM4mDbYcT50vwmAFVAm2RIKTlzJsyyca244kbeHKMJXvPpPNInHlWcLAXn5bj6dskf7ZVJ85vP2P44ecOazn+9uSND37i0YLQe4ABHEE8IM4BIjQwMMg3MEDjdBSMglEwCkYBGgAAshFUiOB3ubUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3311-6769","institution":"North China Electric Power University - Baoding Campus","correspondingAuthor":true,"submittingAuthor":false,"prefix":"","firstName":"Huan","middleName":"","lastName":"Zhang","suffix":""},{"id":187688843,"identity":"108ad478-2290-4ecd-bac2-6a696a894c40","order_by":1,"name":"Qingxin Li","email":"","orcid":"","institution":"North China Electric Power University - Baoding Campus","correspondingAuthor":false,"submittingAuthor":false,"prefix":"","firstName":"Qingxin","middleName":"","lastName":"Li","suffix":""},{"id":187688844,"identity":"c13044b3-7424-4a48-9160-fc4a4d062b72","order_by":2,"name":"Jianli Jiang","email":"","orcid":"","institution":"Tianjin University","correspondingAuthor":false,"submittingAuthor":false,"prefix":"","firstName":"Jianli","middleName":"","lastName":"Jiang","suffix":""}],"badges":[],"createdAt":"2023-03-08 12:51:18","currentVersionCode":1,"declarations":"","doi":"10.21203/rs.3.rs-2669595/v1","doiUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2669595/v1","draftVersion":[],"editorialEvents":[{"content":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-28125-4","type":"published","date":"2023-06-16T21:14:08+00:00"}],"editorialNote":"","failedWorkflow":false,"files":[{"id":44733161,"identity":"9fdffcf0-3ab6-41bd-a9ac-07e052f96b8c","added_by":"auto","created_at":"2023-10-16 22:04:31","extension":"pdf","order_by":1,"title":"","display":"","copyAsset":false,"role":"manuscript-pdf","size":11086834,"visible":true,"origin":"","legend":"","description":"","filename":"Manuscript.pdf","url":"https://assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-2669595/v1_covered_1c4fe376-0b56-407a-b2f0-6116583a38a5.pdf"}],"financialInterests":"","formattedTitle":"Effect and formulation of ecolabel policy: A perspective of green supply chain decision and coordination","fulltext":[],"fulltextSource":"","fullText":"","funders":[],"hasAdminPriorityOnWorkflow":false,"hasManuscriptDocX":false,"hasOptedInToPreprint":true,"hasPassedJournalQc":"","hasAnyPriority":false,"hideJournal":false,"highlight":"","institution":"","isAcceptedByJournal":true,"isAuthorSuppliedPdf":true,"isDeskRejected":"","isHiddenFromSearch":false,"isInQc":false,"isInWorkflow":true,"isPdf":true,"isPdfUpToDate":true,"isWithdrawnOrRetracted":false,"journal":{"display":true,"email":"[email protected]","identity":"environmental-science-and-pollution-research","isNatureJournal":false,"hasQc":true,"allowDirectSubmit":false,"externalIdentity":"espr","sideBox":"Learn more about [Environmental Science and Pollution Research](https://www.springer.com/journal/11356)","snPcode":"11356","submissionUrl":"https://submission.nature.com/new-submission/11356/3","title":"Environmental Science and Pollution Research","twitterHandle":"","acdcEnabled":true,"dfaEnabled":true,"editorialSystem":"em","reportingPortfolio":"Springer Hybrid","inReviewEnabled":true,"inReviewRevisionsEnabled":false},"keywords":"Ecolabel policy, Green products, Manufacturer's reputation, Consumer’s environmental awareness, Supply chain coordination, Stackelberg game","lastPublishedDoi":"10.21203/rs.3.rs-2669595/v1","lastPublishedDoiUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2669595/v1","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},"manuscriptAbstract":"\u003cp\u003eThe ecolabel policy is crucial for sustainable development of green supply chain. Considering manufacturer's reputation and consumer\u0026rsquo;s environmental awareness, this study proposes a few of game models to investigate the impact of the ecolabel policy on the green supply chain. Specifically, four different scenarios are investigated: centralized supply chain with/without certification and decentralized supply chain with/without certification. The results indicate that the ecolabel policy only functions below a threshold of the consumer\u0026rsquo;s environmental awareness which is higher in the decentralized situation. Only when choosing the certification standard as its green degree, can the manufacturer get the optimal profit. Aiming to maximize the environmental benefit, the optimal ecolabel standard in the centralized decision-making situation is higher than that in the decentralized ones. Furthermore, a wholesale price contract with the manufacturer's reputation is established to make both the product\u0026rsquo;s green degree and the whole environmental benefit reach the optimal level in a decentralized supply chain.\u003c/p\u003e","manuscriptTitle":"Effect and formulation of ecolabel policy: A perspective of green supply chain decision and coordination","msid":"","msnumber":"","nonDraftVersions":[{"code":1,"date":"2023-03-31 12:14:39","doi":"10.21203/rs.3.rs-2669595/v1","editorialEvents":[{"type":"communityComments","content":0},{"type":"reviewerAgreed","content":"","date":"2023-03-30T05:21:32+00:00","index":0,"fulltext":""},{"type":"editorInvited","content":"Environmental Science and Pollution Research","date":"2023-03-29T12:52:08+00:00","index":"","fulltext":""},{"type":"editorAssigned","content":"","date":"2023-03-23T04:59:45+00:00","index":"","fulltext":""},{"type":"submitted","content":"Environmental Science and Pollution Research","date":"2023-03-17T02:54:06+00:00","index":"","fulltext":""}],"status":"published","journal":{"display":true,"email":"[email protected]","identity":"environmental-science-and-pollution-research","isNatureJournal":false,"hasQc":true,"allowDirectSubmit":false,"externalIdentity":"espr","sideBox":"Learn more about [Environmental Science and Pollution Research](https://www.springer.com/journal/11356)","snPcode":"11356","submissionUrl":"https://submission.nature.com/new-submission/11356/3","title":"Environmental Science and Pollution Research","twitterHandle":"","acdcEnabled":true,"dfaEnabled":true,"editorialSystem":"em","reportingPortfolio":"Springer Hybrid","inReviewEnabled":true,"inReviewRevisionsEnabled":false}}],"origin":"","ownerIdentity":"50b212d9-50ba-4375-8832-21c056fcbc61","owner":[],"postedDate":"March 31st, 2023","published":true,"recentEditorialEvents":[],"rejectedJournal":[],"revision":"","amendment":"","status":"published-in-journal","subjectAreas":[],"tags":[],"updatedAt":"2023-10-16T21:48:16+00:00","versionOfRecord":{"articleIdentity":"rs-2669595","link":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-28125-4","journal":{"identity":"environmental-science-and-pollution-research","isVorOnly":false,"title":"Environmental Science and Pollution Research"},"publishedOn":"2023-06-16 21:14:08","publishedOnDateReadable":"June 16th, 2023"},"versionCreatedAt":"2023-03-31 12:14:39","video":"","vorDoi":"10.1007/s11356-023-28125-4","vorDoiUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-28125-4","workflowStages":[]},"version":"v1","identity":"rs-2669595","journalConfig":"researchsquare"},"__N_SSP":true},"page":"/article/[identity]/[[...version]]","query":{"redirect":"/article/rs-2669595","identity":"rs-2669595","version":["v1"]},"buildId":"7rjqhiLT3MXkJMwkYKINL","isFallback":false,"isExperimentalCompile":false,"dynamicIds":[84888],"gssp":true,"scriptLoader":[]}