Article: Logistics Strategies and Competitive Advantage Journal: Journal of Business and Management (JBM) 1995 Vol.3 No.1 pp.53 - 78 Abstract: More firms are focusing their competitive strategies not on attaining cost leadership, through experience effects and scale economies, but rather on cultivating their core competence, forming strategic alliances and developing time-based advantage. Reflecting these strategic shifts, they increasingly redirect their logistics strategies away from the conventional emphasis on cost minimization and toward third-party services, logistics partnerships and turbo logistics. This article examines these logistics strategies within the context of an overall quest for competitive advantage. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Logistics Strategies and Competitive Advantage

Authors: Thuong T. Le

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Abstract: More firms are focusing their competitive strategies not on attaining cost leadership, through experience effects and scale economies, but rather on cultivating their core competence, forming strategic alliances and developing time-based advantage. Reflecting these strategic shifts, they increasingly redirect their logistics strategies away from the conventional emphasis on cost minimization and toward third-party services, logistics partnerships and turbo logistics. This article examines these logistics strategies within the context of an overall quest for competitive advantage.

Keywords: Logistics strategies; competitive advantage; strategic alliances; cost leadership; logistics partnerships.

DOI: 10.1504/JBM.1995.141012

Journal of Business and Management, 1995 Vol.3 No.1, pp.53 - 78

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Title: Logistics Strategies and Competitive Advantage

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