Global and International Logistics

Transforming Dubai Logistics Corridor into a Global Logistics Hub

The case discusses the various factors that bolstered positioning Dubai as the ideal location for a logistics hub, located at the crossroads of international trade and commerce between the Eastern and Western worlds. Dubai is also regarded as the gateway to the world’s most progressive markets which include Greater Africa, Indian subcontinent and the East European countries. The case illustrate...

Book Review of Handbook of Global Logistics Transportation in International Supply Chains

This volume is a collection of commissioned contributions, edited by James H Bookbinder, to follow up on a special issue of the journal Transportation Research E, edited by the same editor, which focused on Global Logistics. One of the goals of this volume is to have perspectives of logistics researchers in different geographic areas. Part I consists of four chapters. The first chapter by Chen ...

Global Logistics System Asia Co., Ltd

2 Global Market Segmentation for Logistics Services

While logistics services have become a significant source of competitive differentiation between firms, significant challenges exist relative to developing logistics service offerings for global business customers. Diverse regulations across borders, longer lead times, and increased transportation costs all add to the difficulty of managing logistics services internationally. As a service offer...

International Conference on Logistics , Informatics and Service Science ( LISS 2012 )

It is our pleasure to present the special issue of Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations. In this issue (Volume 11, Issue 2), we selected six papers which have gone through several rounds of review and revision, and represent a cross-section of research in the e-Commerce area that touches upon technical and managerial issues. In the first paper titled " A New User Segmentation Model f...