ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS MODELS IN INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS

@unpublished{citeulike:909975, abstract = {Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) are firms that provide and manage a full scope of inte-grated logistics solutions. Such logistics solutions encompass offering not only transporta-tion services, but also value-added services like warehousing, inventory management, re-labelling, packaging, clearing and forwarding, and other things. Most of the LSPs are inter-national firms, which use a wide range of organizational arrangements, going from arm’s length to fully owned enterprises, in order to expand and perform their activities at an in-ternational level. In general, a single LSP uses more than one organisational mode for car-rying out foreign operations, forming networks and constellations with other firms. The question is why do LSPs favour one organizational model over the other to expand their worldwide business portfolio?}, author = {Lemoine, W. }, citeulike-article-id = {909975}, institution = {Institut for Transportstudier, Center for Logistik og Transport}, keywords = {logistics, merger}, posted-at = {2006-10-22 21:10:34}, priority = {3}, title = {ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS MODELS IN INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS}, url = {http://www.calt.dk/Notater/CALT-Notat9.pdf}, year = {2005} }

TY - UNPB ID - citeulike:909975 L3 - citeulike-article-id:909975 TI - ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS MODELS IN INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS N2 - Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) are firms that provide and manage a full scope of inte-grated logistics solutions. Such logistics solutions encompass offering not only transporta-tion services, but also value-added services like warehousing, inventory management, re-labelling, packaging, clearing and forwarding, and other things. Most of the LSPs are inter-national firms, which use a wide range of organizational arrangements, going from arm’s length to fully owned enterprises, in order to expand and perform their activities at an in-ternational level. In general, a single LSP uses more than one organisational mode for car-rying out foreign operations, forming networks and constellations with other firms. The question is why do LSPs favour one organizational model over the other to expand their worldwide business portfolio? KW - logistics KW - merger AU - Lemoine, W PY - 2005/// UR - http://www.calt.dk/Notater/CALT-Notat9.pdf ER -