The impact of socioeconomic, political and institutional factors on countries' logistic performance
by Flávia Ferreira Marques Bernardino; Marcelo Tavares
World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research (WRITR), Vol. 11, No. 2, 2022

Abstract: This research aims to measure the impact of socioeconomic, political and institutional factors pointed out in the international literature on the efficiency and performance of countries' logistic services. To that end, were used correlation analysis, cluster analysis and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The new configuration of logistic efficiency in countries obtained brings Iceland, Hong Kong, Switzerland, New Zealand and Luxembourg among the ten most efficient countries in logistics, in contrast with what was pointed out by the LPI. The main disagreement in the DEA and LPI rankings clearly concerns Iceland, which is far more efficient using the DEA methodology (in all models). This difference can be attributed to the level of infrastructure development, as well as Iceland's strong institutional structure, information technology, skilled labour, high degree of economic freedom, solid democracy and low levels of corruption. This fundamentally points to the role that the factors included in the DEA model play in measuring countries' logistic efficiency. Therefore, this study contributes in expanding theoretical literature on the subject, as well as suggesting a methodology to measure efficiency that objectively presents the relative importance of its determinants.

Online publication date: Tue, 29-Nov-2022

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