The internationalisation of production has a strong impact on the logistics sector because it increases the flows of goods to be moved and warehousing activities, thus leading to a more complex logistics system. The aim of the article is to investigate the effects of internationalisation,...

The internationalisation of production has a strong impact on the logistics sector because it increases the flows of goods to be moved and warehousing activities, thus leading to a more complex logistics system. The aim of the article is to investigate the effects of internationalisation,...

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 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...

For a firm the logistics challenge consists in the integrated planning, control, realization and monitoring of all internal and network-wide material, part and product flows, including the necessary information flows, for the purpose of satisfying customer needs and realizing a profit. For a...

Le politiche di regolamentazione del traffico urbano merci finora adottate non sono risultate ancora sufficientemente in grado di raggiungere l’obiettivo di migliorare il grado di efficienza privata del sistema distributivo urbano. Di conseguenza, le esternalità negative prodotte da tale...

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...

The present paper investigates the effect of outward investments by Italian manufacturing firms on the domestic employment level and on its skill composition, as measured by the increase in the aggregate share of skilled workers (managers and clerks) in total employment. In doing so, the paper...