Study on the third-party logistics by symmetric evolutionary game under strong correlation between individual pay-off and evolution stage

One category chain model of evolutionary game is proposed to study the process of some economic conditions. It could be used to describe some real life conditions that the income of some one is in strong correlation with the stage at that time he makes decision, and also condition that decision maker is with bounded rationality and limited knowledge. This paper discusses its evolutionary stable strategy (ESS), and some important conclusions are found, that in some situation ESS could be gotten directly, but in another condition ESS could not be worked out and it will be sensitive to initial condition. On the basis of these, this model is used to explain an alliance of Third-Party Logistics(TPL, or 3PL), and a valuable conclusion is gotten and in some situation an alliance of Third-Party Logistics could be created by some ways.