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Logistics service players: free from transport?
[Structuration de l'activité logistique : des acteurs émancipés du transport ?]

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  • Patrick Bourgne

    (LABCS - Laboratoire Communication et Solidarité - UBP - Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2)

  • Christine Roussat

    (CRET-LOG - Centre de Recherche sur le Transport et la Logistique - AMU - Aix Marseille Université)

Abstract

Logistics service players offer disruptive activities. They gradually turn from transport to value added and competitive services. Meanwhile, the sector goes more and more structured by huge global players. Logistics service activities thus illustrate perfectly the generic difficulties to define service industry. How can we delimitate nowadays logistics services players? How do they define and promote their own activities? Through that contribution, we examine firstly the evolution of the logistics industry, the interrelation between transportation and logistics on one hand and between logistics activities and generic services on the other hand. Secondly this paper presents strategic business units of some world logistics players and the way they promote their offers through their Internet websites.

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  • Patrick Bourgne & Christine Roussat, 2008. "Logistics service players: free from transport? [Structuration de l'activité logistique : des acteurs émancipés du transport ?]," Post-Print hal-01426818, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01426818
    DOI: 10.46298/cst.12074
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