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Logistics Clusters - Delivering Value and Driving Growth (Paperback)
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Logistics Clusters - Delivering Value and Driving Growth (Paperback)
Series: The Mit Press
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Discovery Miles 4 640
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How logistics clusters can create jobs while providing companies
with competitive advantage. Why is Memphis home to hundreds of
motor carrier terminals and distribution centers? Why does the tiny
island-nation of Singapore handle a fifth of the world's maritime
containers and half the world's annual supply of crude oil? Which
jobs can replace lost manufacturing jobs in advanced economies?
Some of the answers to these questions are rooted in the phenomenon
of logistics clusters-geographically concentrated sets of
logistics-related business activities. In this book, supply chain
management expert Yossi Sheffi explains why Memphis, Singapore,
Chicago, Rotterdam, Los Angeles, and scores of other locations have
been successful in developing such clusters while others have not.
Sheffi outlines the characteristic "positive feedback loop" of
logistics clusters development and what differentiates them from
other industrial clusters; how logistics clusters "add value" by
generating other industrial activities; why firms should locate
their distribution and value-added activities in logistics
clusters; and the proper role of government support, in the form of
investment, regulation, and trade policy. Sheffi also argues for
the most important advantage offered by logistics clusters in
today's recession-plagued economy: jobs, many of them open to
low-skilled workers, that are concentrated locally and not
"offshorable." These logistics clusters offer what is rare in
today's economy: authentic success stories. For this reason,
numerous regional and central governments as well as scores of real
estate developers are investing in the development of such
clusters. View a trailer for the book at:
http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/22284-logistics-clusters-yossi-sheffi
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