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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2024, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (10): 265-274.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2021.2656

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Design of Information Security Responsibility Coordination Contract in Software Supply Chain under Bilateral Moral Hazard

Qiang Xiong1(),Shuai Lian1,Zhiwen Li1,Shuai Jin1,2   

  1. 1.School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
    2.Computational Experiment Center for Social Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • Received:2021-12-23 Revised:2022-07-01 Online:2024-10-25 Published:2024-11-09
  • Contact: Qiang Xiong E-mail:xiongqiang@ujs.edu.cn

Abstract:

Information security is the foundation for the high-quality development of the software supply chain. In the software supply chain, information security risks are inherited, and the input of upstream and downstream information security jointly determines the degree of software operation security. Information security risks in any link will directly or indirectly affect the security of end software users. Due to the complexity of information security, neither software vendors nor users can observe each other's efforts in information security. When a safety accident occurs, the responsibility for the accident cannot be clearly defined, thus generating bilateral moral hazard. The supply chain studied in this paper consists of software suppliers and users. By constructing an ideal control model under centralized decision-making (without moral hazard) and an information security vulnerability loss sharing model under decentralized decision-making (bilateral moral hazard), a reasonable software supply chain information security responsibility coordination contract is designed and the numerical simulation of the model is carried out.The research results show that the ratio of vulnerability loss sharing between software suppliers and users is related to the cost coefficient of the other party, not its own cost coefficient. The level of cooperative R&D determined by the synergy coefficient and cost coefficient has not changed, and when both parties in the software supply chain have certain negotiating power, under the condition of bilateral moral hazard, there is an optimal loophole loss sharing contract and the optimal benefit ratio of both parties is equal to the ratio of their respective negotiating factors. When both parties in the software supply chain share information security risks, they can change the linear distribution ratio according to their respective cost structures to seek the optimal sharing of vulnerability loss costs for both parties. At last, based on the perspective of information security management, relevant management implications are given for software suppliers and its users.

Key words: software supply chain, bilateral morality, information security responsibility, coordination contract

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