Logistics Centers and Agglomeration Economies: Logistics Clusters or Co-located Logistics Activities? The French Case

Nathan Bounie () and Corinne Blanquart
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Nathan Bounie: LVMT - Laboratoire Ville, Mobilité, Transport - IFSTTAR - Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées
Corinne Blanquart: IFSTTAR/AME - Département Aménagement, Mobilités et Environnement - IFSTTAR - Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux - Université de Lyon - UNAM - PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans - Communauté Université Paris-Est

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Abstract: This paper is concerned with the topic of clusters, which are concentrations of activities which provide their members with beneficial market and technological effects. In order to enrich debate on this issue, we shall focus here on a particular type of concentration (logistics) which differs from others in that it is both specific in nature and managed. In order to analyze the concentrations in question, which we shall refer to as logistics centers, statistical analysis of 733 logistics establishments is performed, some of which are located in such centers, others outside. The results of the analysis show that this form of concentration has impacts which contradict those reported in the literature on clusters, as our statistical results show that these logistics centers do not have beneficial effects for the firms located in them.

Keywords: CLUSTER; ECONOMIE D'AGGLOMERATION; PROXIMITE; LOGISTIQUE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-07-10
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Published in World Conference on Transport Research - WCTR 2016, Jul 2016, Shanghai, China. 16p

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