Logistics service players: free from transport?

Structuration de l'activité logistique: des acteurs émancipés du transport ?

Patrick Bourgne and Christine Roussat ()
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Patrick Bourgne: LABCS - Laboratoire Communication et Solidarité - UBP - Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2
Christine Roussat: CRET-LOG - Centre de Recherche sur le Transport et la Logistique - AMU - Aix Marseille Université

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Abstract: Logistics service players offer disruptive activities. They gradually turn from transport to value added and competitive services. Meanwhile, the sector goes more and more structured by huge global players. Logistics service activities thus illustrate perfectly the generic difficulties to define service industry. How can we delimitate nowadays logistics services players? How do they define and promote their own activities? Through that contribution, we examine firstly the evolution of the logistics industry, the interrelation between transportation and logistics on one hand and between logistics activities and generic services on the other hand. Secondly this paper presents strategic business units of some world logistics players and the way they promote their offers through their Internet websites.

Keywords: transport; service; logistique; prestataire; structuration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-11-30
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Published in Les Cahiers Scientifiques du Transport / Scientific Papers in Transportation, 2008, 54 | 2008, pp.73-100. ⟨10.46298/cst.12074⟩

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DOI: 10.46298/cst.12074

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