Sources of competitiveness for logistics service providers: A UK industry perspective

Logistics Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-32

  Liu, Xiaohong ^a   McKinnon, Alan C ^b   Grant, David B ^c   Feng, Yuanhua ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capabilities; Competitiveness; Logistics service providers; Porter's competitive advantage theory; Resource based view

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898009653     PISSN: 1865035X     EISSN: 18650368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12159-010-0024-7     Document Type: Article

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