Min Zhang^*, Zhenggang Chi

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Department of Economics and Management, Huizhou University, Huizhou, China.
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Abstract: Widely accepted social regulations are playing an important role in influencing human cooperation, which largely reduces the demand for information and helps in forming a stable cooperation partnership. Based on this, we put forward a rational and social consistent economic agent mode—The “Information Economic Man Assumption”. Taking Field Theory for reference, we established the organizational information mode and introduced the concept of capital vector. Also the capital vector of economic organization and value orientation are taken as core variables, thus we analyze the basic condition of cooperation maintenance from economic, cultural and moral factors at the same time.

Keywords: Information Economic Man Assumption; Capital Vector; Organizational Information Field Mode; Cooperation Mechanism; Dynamic Supply Chain; Stable Supply Chain

Cite this paper: Zhang, M. and Chi, Z. (2013) The Study of the Supply Chain Cooperation Mechanism Based on the “Information Economic Man Assumption”. American Journal of Industrial and Business Management, 3, 418-428. doi: 10.4236/ajibm.2013.34048.

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