Assessing resources, logistics service capabilities, innovation capabilities and the performance of container shipping services in Taiwan

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 4-20

  Yang, Ching Chiao ^a   Marlow, Peter B ^b   Lu, Chin Shan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Innovation capability; Logistics service capability; Resource based view; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

FIRMS' PERFORMANCE; INNOVATION CAPABILITY; LOGISTICS SERVICE CAPABILITY; LOGISTICS SERVICES; MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS; POSITIVE EFFECTS; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW; SERVICE FIRMS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

CONTAINERS;

LOGISTICS;

EID: 70349411556     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2009.03.016     Document Type: Article

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