Coopetitive Games for Sustainability of Global Feeding  and Climate Change: Recent Developments

Carfì, David; Donato, Alessia

doi:10.14505//jemt.v9.1(25).25

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“…We found that customers recognized green practices and shared their perceptions in UGC, but their perceptions were limited to food-related green practices, such as the use of local/organic ingredients and vegan menus. A vegan diet has become a sustainability trend to lessen the harmful ecological impact of meat production due to the heavy use of natural resources required for meat production and massive emissions of greenhouse gasses [63]. Also, many environmentally conscious customers prefer to consume local and organic food products, which reduce food miles and the use of chemicals [64].…”

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The Effects of Green Restaurant Attributes on Customer Satisfaction Using the Structural Topic Model on Online Customer Reviews

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Although green practice is increasingly adopted in the restaurant industry, there is still little research in terms of investigating the impacts of green practice on customer satisfaction. This study utilized user-generated content by green restaurant customers to identify various aspects of green restaurants, including perceived green restaurant practices. Our data are based on U.S. green-certified restaurants available on Yelp. Structural topic modeling was used to discover latent restaurant attributes from user-generated content. With a longitudinal approach, the changes in customers’ interest in green practices were estimated. Finally, the common restaurant attributes and green attributes were used to predict customer satisfaction. This study will contribute to marketing strategies for the restaurant industry.

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“…Some of these problems can, in part, be mitigated with a more sustainable food diet by eating less meat; see [16,17]. Some resources can be preserved by investing in the development of sustainable machinery with low CO 2 emissions or machinery that allow the reuse or recycling of natural resources.…”

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Plastic-Pollution Reduction and Bio-Resources Preservation Using Green-Packaging Game Coopetition

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Donato

2022

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In this paper, we deal with the renowned problem of plastic pollution caused by food consumption and its conservation. Specifically, we consider the producer/reseller decision problem of industrial organizations in conditions of perfect competition within small oligopoly clusters. Indeed, very often, one major sustainability problem is that the presence of direct competitors in the same market determines entrepreneurship choices which lower production costs and packaging costs at the expense of the environment and public health. For this purpose, in order to show economic scenarios in which the respect and preservation of the environment and natural resources are quantitatively compatible with profits and economic growth, we present a provisional coopetitive model of the strategic interaction of two food enterprises, in direct duopoly competition, through investments in sustainable-packaging technologies. The macroeconomic goal is to propose possible actions to reduce carbon footprints and the inflow of plastics to the marine environment, following the environmental targets established by the United Nations, also in the presence of direct perfect oligopolistic competition in the same market. From a microeconomic point of view, we assume the existence of two competitors selling a very similar type of food in the same market; therefore, within a competitive interaction, we adopt a classic “Cournot duopoly” core upon which we define a parametric game, namely, a coopetitive game, together with its possible dynamical scenarios and solutions. We should notice that beyond the parameter arising from the cooperation construct, we introduce a matrix of stochastic variables, which we can also consider as the state of the world. Moreover, we numerically examine one possible state of the world to exemplify our model proposal. We determine, analytically and graphically, the optimal investment in the cooperative strategy, the purely coopetitive solution and some super-cooperative solutions. The cooperative strategy represents the common investment chosen to acquire advanced green technologies for innovative packaging, while the fourth component of any solution in the strategy space represents the state of the world at the end of the coopetitive process in which, finally, we can see the profits and costs deriving from the adoption of the green technologies.

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“…Therefore, our approach could be considered significantly new because, on the one hand, we use infinite non-cooperative games for the determination of equilibria and Pareto boundaries in a possible realistic competitive interaction outside the eco-industrial park; on the other hand, we introduce a collaborative dynamics to find efficient policies for the expansion of the eco-industrial park and for the improvement of its facilities as well as the environmental protection and respect for public health. Other studies in which the authors have used this new approach applied to different environmental contexts are [15][16][17][18][19].…”

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Environmental Management through Coopetitive Urban Waste Recycling in Eco-Industrial Parks

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2021

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In this article, we consider the coexistence of competing actors within a specific eco-industrial park. The competing firms dynamics evolves by means of an interplay agreement determined among the competitors themselves. In particular, we show a possible scenario in which the selected eco-industrial competitors could greatly benefit from a coopetitive interaction, within their common eco-park, while improving the general conditions of a near residential area. The associated dynamical coopetitive agreement, aims at the growth and improvement of the firms themselves and of their industrial network (within a virtuous environmental path). As an example, we assume the existence of two competitors selling the same good on the same market, so that, from a competitive point of view, we construct a classic Cournot duopoly model upon which we build up a multidimensional coopetitive agreement. Our eco-friendly deal allows to “enlarge the pie” of possible gains by diminishing sunk costs and other forms of costs, especially the environmental costs associated to the management of urban waste recycling. Consequently, we suggest production methods and production quantitative profiles in order to “share the gains fairly”. We show a complete mathematical analysis of our new economic game and show some of its possible and relevant solutions.

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Coopetitive Games for Sustainability of Global Feeding and Climate Change: Recent Developments

Cited by 8 publications

References 43 publications

The Effects of Green Restaurant Attributes on Customer Satisfaction Using the Structural Topic Model on Online Customer Reviews

The Effects of Green Restaurant Attributes on Customer Satisfaction Using the Structural Topic Model on Online Customer Reviews

Plastic-Pollution Reduction and Bio-Resources Preservation Using Green-Packaging Game Coopetition

Environmental Management through Coopetitive Urban Waste Recycling in Eco-Industrial Parks

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