Performance Differences and Mobility Barriers among Different Strategic Groups in Third-Party Logistics Industry

• Main Authors: Siou-jyu Cao, 曹秀菊
• Other Authors: Tsan-hwan Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70143441759852852264

碩士 === 國立高雄第一科技大學 === 運籌管理研究所 === 101 === Due to severe global competition pressures, logistics market competition also becomes rigorous. The competition not only can be observed in operational areas such as transportation, storage, and order-picking, but also in other aspects like technology, information, and service quality. To stay competitive, logistics practioners should not only think and act in operational aspects, but also in strategic initiatives. Taking Taiwan’s third-party logistics industry (3PL) as the target, the study primarily investigates the strategic competition behaviors of the industry. Strategic dimensions are identified by factor analysis. The industry is grouped by clustering. Relationships between strategic groups and mobility barriers, between strategic groups and performance measures, and among strategic groups, mobility barriers, and performance measures are validated through multivariate statistical analysis. Several results are found. Taiwan’s 3PL market can be clustered as conservatively, multiple-channel, and comprehensively operating groups by logistics-services and channel-integration, cost, internationalization and direct-marketing, and finally multiple-channel strategic dimensions. Different strategic groups possess different mobility barriers in different levels and achieve significantly different levels in performance measures. Groups with higher mobility barrier levels usually perform significantly better. These findings can serve as references for logistics practioners to improve their strategies and to move their strategic positioning into groups with higher mobility barriers and higher performances.