Benefits, risks, selection criteria and success factors for third-party logistics services

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 380-392

  Selviaridis, Konstantinos ^a   Spring, Martin ^a   Profillidis, Vassilios ^b   Botzoris, George ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Outsourcing; Selection criteria; Service provider; Third party logistics; Transportation service

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149196508     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/mel.2008.12     Document Type: Article

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