An Empirical Study of the Bullwhip Effect in China

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Shan, Jun; Yang, Shitao; Yang, Shilei; Zhang, Jin
• 署名单位: Nankai University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China
• 刊物名称: PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1059-1478
• DOI: 10.1111/poms.12034
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 537-551
• 关键词: Bullwhip effect; empirical study; CHINA; Supply chain management

摘要

In this study, we investigate the bullwhip effect in China using data on over 1200 companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2002 to 2009. Specifically, we estimate the ratio of the volatility of production to the volatility of demand as a proxy for the bullwhip effect. Our results show that more than two-thirds of the companies we studied exhibit the bullwhip effect. We also find that several hypotheses proposed in the existing literature are supported by firm-level data from China, and that the intensity of the bullwhip effect in China declined during the period from 2002 to 2009.