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Evolution of Traditional Outsourcing into Innovative Intelligent Outsourcing - Smartsourcing

Promet (Zagreb), 2009
The concept and practice of traditional outsourcing is certainly not a new concept. Globalisation, competition and other market pressures have driven more businesses to consider using logistics provider to increase efficiency and effectiveness [11 ...
Patricija Bajec
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Cluster Analysis of Circular Economy and Industrial Symbiosis Practices and Their Impact on Sustainability Performance in the Plastics Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how plastics manufacturing firms can be classified according to their level of implementation of circular economy (CE) and industrial symbiosis (IS) practices and how such adoption influences sustainability performance. Using data from plastics manufacturing firms, we integrate cluster analysis with partial least squares ...
Laura Cristina Ramírez‐Rodríguez, Rafael Mora‐Contreras, Carmen Jaca, Marta Ormazabal   +3 more
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The Impact Of Circular Economy On Logistics Outsourcing Decisions: A Transaction Cost Perspective

Proceedings of the Conference on Production Systems and Logistics
Logistics outsourcing is a common practice in supply chain management, where firms delegate some or all of their logistics activities to external service providers. The main motivations for logistics outsourcing are to focus on core-competencies, achieve
Pulat, Christian, Herberger, David, Hübner, Marco   +2 more
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MODELING SUPPLY CONTRACTS TO MANAGE OUTSOURCING RISKS OF LOGISTICS' ACTIVITIES

Journal of Engineering and Management in Industrial System, 2019
Many companies managed to improve logistics performance by making outsourcing decisions on logistics activities. The use of logistics outsourcing, not only can maintain their focus on core businesses, but also continue to minimize distribution costs by ...
Winda Narulidea, Sekarsari Utami Wijaya
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Corporate Decarbonization: Understanding CO2 Emission Drivers Across High‐ and Low‐Polluting Firms in OECD Countries

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decarbonization of the economy is a central challenge in the fight against climate change. Although most governments show clear commitment to limiting global warming, the drivers of corporate decarbonization remain underexplored. Using a dataset of 1052 firms from OECD, this article analyses how intangible assets and environmental innovation ...
Yanik Nimtz, Mercedes Teruel
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Enacting outsourcing: An innovation process perspective

Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 2010
Much research has been done on outsourcing. However, we still know little about outsourcing based on a social process view on innovation. Outsourcing is an innovation as a logistics-related process that is perceived as new by the adopter. We will explore
Benedikte Borgström, Susanne Hertz
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Characteristics of Logistics Outsourcing in Bulgaria: The Perspectives of the Logistics Service Providers and their Customers [PDF]

Logistics & Sustainable Transport, 2016
AbstractThe increased demand and supply of logistics services bring together the logistics service providers (LSPs) and the companies that outsource logistics activities. LSPs stand in between those companies and their customers, thus playing an essential role for supply chain integration.
openaire   +2 more sources

Decarbonization Boundary Choices and the Effectiveness of Stakeholder Engagement in Voluntary Climate Action Commitments: Evidence From Emerging Economies

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how stakeholder engagement, conceptualized as a boundary‐spanning organizational capability, interacts with firms' decarbonization strategies, in relation to climate action commitments (CACs) in voluntary initiatives.
David Tobón Orozco, Jose Pla‐Barber
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An analytical study on logistics outsourcing impact on logistical service quality in supply chains (case study: industrial enterprises of Sumy region) [PDF]

Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2017
The aim of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the impact of logistical outsourcing on the overall quality of the level of the logistical service of enterprises-producers in supply chains.
Olena Bilovodska, Nataliia Gaidabrus, Daria Ruban   +2 more
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Gen‐AI Is Not an Option for Environment Sustainability‐Enabling of Gen‐AI for Responsible and Green Supply Chains Using a Grey Network Map (GNM)

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental sustainability in supply chains is no longer considered a compliance concern. It has become a strategic capability challenge, as firms seek to use Generative artificial intelligence (Gen‐AI) to improve decision quality, resource efficiency and responsible operations.
Anbesh Jamwal, Anil Kumar, Ashutosh Samadhiya, Sunil Luthra   +3 more
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