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This paper sheds new light on the assessment of firm networks via multiple directorships in terms of corporate firm performance. Using a large sample of European listed firms in the period from 2003 to 2011 and system GMM we find a significant compensation effect on corporate firm performance...
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This paper examines the issue of measuring logistics costs from an applied trade policy research perspective, as well … as identifying logistics-intensive sectors. It focuses on currently available data at the macro- and firm-levels. Data …-level data, and production and trade data. Although current data exhibit a number of weaknesses compared with “custom” logistics …
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This handbook presents the current logistics operations for fresh produce exports and lists relevant service providers …. For each logistics section such as packing, transportation, insurance, customs brokerage, and other related services …
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Logistics is one of the most important compenents in achieving the success for the firms in competition in the present … this reason, that the promising logistics managers take the sufficient education and training in the field of Logistics …’s aimed to cover up the available case by making an extensive research for logistics education in Turkey. …
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, in order to adopt, in a successful way, new technologies in the logistics field, and also to integrate logistics into the … present paper aims: (i) to highlight the importance of ICT on logistics; and (ii) to understand the impact of ICT on the firms …’ competitiveness. In this paper a conceptual model for the adoption of Logistics’ ICT is presented, by taking into consideration four …
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More and more companies are using RFID radio chip technology to boost their competitiveness. Yet RFID not only enhances the efficiency of the company deploying it. It also promotes innovativeness in the economy as a whole. Nevertheless, not every RFID project driven by a technological vision...
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In the last years, broad changes have contributed to the enhancement of the importance of the logistics as a source of …-cycle firm’s stages, and the standard profile of logistics activities, and the correspondent impact on performance. …
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Morocco’s trade policy is at a cross-roads. Historically, the country has had a very restrictive import regime that generated substantial transfers to domestic producers. In terms of the simple average of most-favored nation tariffs, Morocco is one of the ten most highly protected markets in...
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Integrated logistics inside industrial districts, in spite of its potential, still faces infrastructural and cultural …
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This article presents the last mile problem occurring in e-commerce. In the first part of the article we discusses the area of delivery to the customer. Next, we present the causes of the last mile problem, and we characterize the costs of dealing with this issue. In the next part the...
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