We investigate the strategic impact of flexible delivery frequencies on the competition of logistics service providers (LSPs) in a supply chain. LSPs compete for customers who choose an exclusive service provider based on their individual preference, prices and inventory costs. The service...

The Indian logistics industry is developing rapidly, with the interplay of changing government policies, infrastructure, and change in technologies; this defines that Indian logistics industry can able to satisfy its customers apart from its various challenges with better coordination across...

The purpose of this paper is to study factors that affecting decision to choose logistics transportation system in Thai Automotive Service Parts Industry. The study identified contexts where sourcing is made based on transaction cost economics theory (TCE), the resource-based view (RBV), core...

This research explores the interdependence within the international logistics sector among 17 nations, utilizing a quantile-based technique to assess the transmission of returns. By analyzing daily data from DataStream spanning from 1 June 2016, to 12 August 2024, we apply the Quantile Vector...

The logistic system as an element giving a competitive advantage to individual organizations and business firm systems alike, is now becoming increasingly relevant (Håkansson e Persson, 2004). In particular, logistic platforms (in Italian, interporti) carry out a highly central role in the...

Supply chain security witnessed two new developments in the opening weeks of 2012. On January 25, 2012, the Obama Administration released a new “National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security.” That same month, the World Economic Forum released a report titled “New Models for...

The aim of this paper is to report the findings of the study of the routes and the distance traveled by spices from the farming location to the consumer in traditional and organised retailing. This research study is primarily exploratory in nature, and the research instruments include interviews...

Emerging markets and transition economies challenge established business theories. In this paper, we conceptualise a framework incorporating the institution-and resource-based view to analyse how institutions impact the operations of western companies in a transition economy context: foreign...

This paper presents the services trade restrictiveness indices (STRIs) for transport and courier services. The STRIs are composite indices taking values between zero and one, zero representing an open market and one a market completely closed to foreign services providers. The indices are...