An Empirical Analysis Оn Logistics Performance and the Global Competitiveness

Abstract

expectations of their customers (Lai and Cheng 2009). For this purpose, many of them have found the logistics as the area for reducing the costs and improving services efficiency (Lai and Cheng 2009).The current research was undertaken to address the issue of how logistics performances and global competitiveness relate to each other. Are there any significant relationships between logistics performance score and global competitiveness? Which pillars of global competitiveness highly correlate with the logistics performances? Based on the income levels of group of countries, are there any significant changes in the mean values of global competitiveness over the seven-year period? Which pillars of global competitiveness are showing significant differences?The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section 1 reviews the literature on logistics. Section 2 introduces the data and methods used for the analyses by using various measures drawn from the World Bank (2016) Abstract. Logistics has been identified as an area to build cost and service advantages. Therefore, companies are more focused on customer needs and trying to find ways to reduce costs, improve quality and meet the growing expectations of their clients. Indeed, the global competition has led managers to begin to address the issue of providing more efficient logistics services. In this regard, this paper presents an empirical study on logistics performance and global competitiveness. This paper also identifies the associations between logistics performances and global competitiveness. The results indicate that some variables in global competitiveness scores contribute much higher to the logistics performances than the other variables through analysis. The variables that contribute much higher than the other variables to the logistics performances are shown.

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