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Corporate social responsibility is a complex concept, where ecology is one of the key elements. From the point of view … of logistics, care for the environment and respect for non-renewable resources is a particularly important issue. The … essence of logistics is the movement of people and cargo, that is possible only by using a certain amount of energy. Companies …
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For many years, cargo traffic was marred by inefficiency, slow work systems, extensive paperwork and inaccuracies in the supply chain and transportation to the final destination. Processes within the chain itself entailed slow work, which resulted in large deviations in terms of transport and...
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This paper presents the services trade restrictiveness indices (STRIs) for transport and courier services. The STRIs are composite indices taking values between zero and one, zero representing an open market and one a market completely closed to foreign services providers. The indices are...
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outcome of a first research project on the Belgian transport logistics sectors. In the past few years, the logistics business … attempt to estimate the economic importance of Belgian transport logistics, it was decided to favour a sectoral approach, by … focusing on some freight transport logistics sectors clearly defined in the NACE classification. The impact is presented in two …
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Supply chain security witnessed two new developments in the opening weeks of 2012. On January 25, 2012, the Obama Administration released a new “National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security.” That same month, the World Economic Forum released a report titled “New Models for...
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Job markets in the transport and logistics industry are characterized by a scarcity of well-educated junior talent … to investigate how corporate social performance (CSP) profiles of logistics companies influence their attractiveness for … with the conditions of employment. The authors find that the ease of comparability of corporate social responsibility (CSR …
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