Third-party logistics (TPL) has attracted considerable research attention in the recent past.
Despite the growing body of literature on this topic, precious little effort has been devoted to …

Performance measurement of logistics companies is based upon various performance
indicators. Yet, in the logistics industry, there are several vaguenesses, such as deciding on …

Logistics outsourcing is a practice commonly used by firms to allow them to access
capabilities that they lack internally. Although the main drivers of outsourcing in general are …

Contemporarily, globalization causes increase in competitions and this fact leads the
companies having to focus on their specialties in order to gain competitive advantage. In …

Purpose–The purpose of this research is to identify key attributes of freight logistics service
quality and to examine how these attributes impact shippers' selection of third‐party logistics …

The selection of a third-party logistics (3PL) provider is an important and demanding task for
many companies and organizations dealing with distribution activities. To assist in decision …

Purpose–This paper aims to develop a qualitative risk model to empirically identify the
important outsourcing risks of logistical functions using the data of Taiwanese retail chains …

Despite the growing trend of logistics outsourcing, there are very limited sources of literature
on logistics outsourcing, especially in determining the relationship between factors …

This paper uses the extant literature to identify the key success factors that are associated
with performance in the Indian third-party logistics service providers (3PL) sector. We …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to analyze the interaction among some of the major
barriers that may hinder the implementation of third-party logistics (TPL) in manufacturing …