Similarly in the commercial airline industry, the global Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) business is faced with creating total service packages to attract future work, as airlines accelerate outsourcing and retire aging aircraft to minimize life cycle and transaction costs. Third-party service providers are challenging the market share traditionally dominated by the major airline subsidi...

Sustainability awareness across various economic sectors requires firms to use logistics outsourcing reduce logistics-related emissions with compliant service providers (LSPs). LSPs apply advanced information technologies help achieve high efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability goals. While has received considerable attention from researchers, limited research identified the elements of ...

Due to the significant growth in the demand for logistics services and the ongoing trend towards the outsourcing of logistics activities, logistics service providers have concurrently gained a significant profit-making opportunity and faced the unprecedented challenge of surviving in the midst of increasingly fierce market competition. This research thus aims to propose routing strategies that ...

Supplier relationship management is an important challenge for shippers in logistics outsourcing. This paper attempts to understand the factors which affect inter organizational relationships performance in third party logistics and proposes a conceptual framework specifically for inter organizational relationship performance in third party logistics. We also draw a set of propositions from pub...

There are emerging changes in the provision of logistic services brought about by the rapid take up of e-Commerce. At this time the logistics world as we know it is changing conceptually. The momentum is still gathering for widespread changes to traditional practices within the logistics chain, although some practices have already been radically rethought and reinvented at the margin. This pape...

The nature of the relationship between employers and employees has been changing over the last decades, with firms increasingly relying on contractors, temp agencies and franchises rather than hiring employees directly. We investigate the impact of this transformation on the wage structure by following jobs that are moved outside of the boundary of lead employers to contracting firms. For this ...