Title: Modelling the green supply chain of hotels based on front-back stage decoupling: perspective of ant colony labour division

Authors: Changbing Jiang; Ruolan Li; Jue Chen; Shufang Li; Tinggui Chen; Chonghuan Xu

Addresses: School of Management and E-Business, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China ' School of Management and E-Business, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China; School of Economics and Trade, Chengdu Agricultural College, Chengdu 611130, China ' School of Tourism Management and Urban-rural Planning, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China ' School of Accounting and Finance, Zhejiang Vocational College of Commerce, Hangzhou, 310053, China ' School of Statistics and Mathematics, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China ' Business Administration College, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China

Abstract: To face the challenges from fierce competition in traditional industry and increasing concern on environment protection, hotels in China are seeking practice of green supply chain (GSC), which helps in both raising operation efficiency and minimising environmental impacts. Rooting from a case study in China's hotel industry, this study intends to firstly build a new conceptual model of hotel GSC by integrating the concept of front-back stage decoupling. Then a mathematical model based on the concept of ant colony labour division is constructed to explain and verify the mechanism of the new GSC model. Moreover simulation is conducted for model testing and further discussion, which finally leads to the conclusions and future research suggestion.

Keywords: green supply chain; ant colony labour division; front-back stage decoupling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIC.2021.119201

International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, 2021 Vol.18 No.3, pp.176 - 188

Received: 22 Dec 2020
Accepted: 18 Feb 2021
Published online: 29 Nov 2021 *

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