Article: The impact of socioeconomic, political and institutional factors on countries' logistic performance Journal: World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research (WRITR) 2022 Vol.11 No.2 pp.188 - 210 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. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: The impact of socioeconomic, political and institutional factors on countries' logistic performance

Authors: Flávia Ferreira Marques Bernardino; Marcelo Tavares

Addresses: Federal University of Uberlândia, Santa Monica Campus, Bairro Santa Mônica, Uberlândia/Minas Gerais, Brazil ' Federal University of Uberlândia, Santa Monica Campus, Bairro Santa Mônica, Uberlândia/Minas Gerais, Brazil

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.

Keywords: countries' logistic performance; DEA; data envelopment analysis; socioeconomic aspects; political aspects; institutional aspects.

DOI: 10.1504/WRITR.2022.127222

World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research, 2022 Vol.11 No.2, pp.188 - 210

Received: 24 Jan 2022
Accepted: 07 Jun 2022
Published online: 29 Nov 2022 *

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