A Two-Echelon Agricultural Product Supply Chain with Freshness and Greenness Concerns: A Cost-Sharing Contract Perspective

Table 1

The notations in the APSC decision models.

Parameters
	Market capacity of the green agricultural product
	The price sensitivity parameter of consumer demand
	Demand sensitivity to the green (or organic) level of the agricultural product
	The green (or organic) investment cost parameter
	The base production cost of the agricultural product
	Demand quantity of the green agricultural product
	Demand sensitivity to freshness of the agricultural product
	The fresh-keeping effort cost parameter
	The retailer’s sharing proportion of the green (or organic) investment cost of the agricultural product
	The profit of the producer
	The profit of the retailer
	The profit of the supply chain
Decision variables
	The wholesale price of the agricultural product
	The greenness level of the agricultural product by the producer
	The freshness level of the agricultural product
	The retail price of the agricultural product
Superscript/subscripts
	The optimal values where indicates the integrated case, stands for the decentralized case, and signifies the retailer’s cost-sharing case with the producer for the green (or organic) investment of the agricultural product.