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Logistics Startups and Logistics Service Providers: Competitors or Partners in Exploration?

In: Transport Development Challenges in the 21st Century

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  • Marzenna Cichosz

    (Collegium of Management and Finance, SGH Warsaw School of Economics)

Abstract

The logistics industry is facing digital disruption along its entire value chain. Agile, innovative startups develop an expanding range of technology-driven solutions for industry pain points. The purpose of this chapter is to look at logistics startups, their characteristics and taxonomy, but foremost their relationships with incumbent logistics service providers (LSPs). Within this chapter the author analyzes whether startups and incumbent LSPs are competitors or partners in exploration and how LSPs should cooperate with startups to fuel their innovativeness and growth. The chapter is based on the qualitative analysis of logistics startups websites as well as semi-structured interviews with three leading LSPs. At the theoretical level, the research contributes to enriching logistics studies by presenting logistics startups and analyzing their impact on the logistics service industry. At a managerial level, the findings provide illustration on how to collaborate with startups to increase LSPs’ innovativeness.

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  • Marzenna Cichosz, 2021. "Logistics Startups and Logistics Service Providers: Competitors or Partners in Exploration?," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Michal Suchanek (ed.), Transport Development Challenges in the 21st Century, pages 1-11, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-030-50010-8_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-50010-8_1
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