The aim of the paper is to investigate the indirect impact of internationalisation process, undertaken by the district firms located in Veneto region (north-eastern Italy), on the logistics’ employment change within the same industrial districts. The results of the empirical analysis have...

The internationalisation of the logistics and transport industry has massively increased in the last three decades. Given this rapid growth, fully understanding the determinants and implications of this phenomenon has been high on the agenda for both policy makers as well as academics. The...

The internationalisation of the logistics and transport industry has massively increased in the last three decades. Given this rapid growth, fully understanding the determinants and implications of this phenomenon has been high on the agenda for both policy makers as well as academics. The...

The present paper deals with the impact of manufacturing internationalisation, in the forms of international trade, cooperation agreements - measured by inward and outward processing trade (IPT and OPT, respectively) - and FDI, on the transport industry employment. Descriptive statistics and...

The internationalisation of the logistics industry has massively increased in the last three decades. Depending on the motivations behind foreign direct investments (FDI), a multinational enterprise (MNE) may invest in a country through horizontal, vertical and conglomerate integrations. The...

The internationalisation of the logistics and transport industry has massively increased in the last three decades. Given this rapid growth, fully understanding the determinants and implications of this phenomenon has been high on the agenda for both policy makers as well as academics. The...

The present paper deals with the impact of manufacturing internationalisation, in the forms of international trade, cooperation agreement and FDI, on the logistics sector. Some descriptive statistics are provided for the Italian macro-areas and the logistics employment and an econometric...

This paper proposes a new systemic approach to the analysis of the External Logistics Industry (or Third Party Logistics) as well as a discussion on the interactions between logistics activities and the territory. The recent evolution of this economic field represents an obvious consequence of...

A large re-structuring process is running in the European logistics market. The main driving forces come from the globalisation of the Economy, encouraged by the decrease of the unit transportation costs and by the contemporaneous upgrading of the labour level costs and the legal environmental...

In the last decades the world tourist flows rapidly grew and travel and tourism has become one of the world's highest priority industries and employers. According to UNWTO world tourism barometer, in 2008 international tourist arrivals reached 919 million (880 million in 2009, a cause of the...