Examining success factors for logistics outsourcing in Sub‐Saharan Africa

IF 17.7 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2024-04-13 DOI:10.1002/tjo3.12004

Christopher Alioni, Byung-In Park, Hokey Min

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With the rapid globalization of business activities, logistics has become incredibly complex and intricate. As such, managing logistics is more challenging than ever. One of the trendy solutions to deal with this challenge is logistics outsourcing. In this regard, Sub‐Saharan African firms are no exception. To help Sub‐Saharan African firms succeed in leveraging logistics outsourcing for their competitive differentiators, this article aims to investigate how the organizational capabilities of third‐party logistics service providers (3PLs) contribute to their users' logistics outsourcing success. Based on an empirical analysis of 211 food processing firms in Uganda, we found that the 3PLs' technological and innovation capabilities positively affected logistics outsourcing success. In contrast, the 3PLs' flexibility and integration capabilities had no bearing on the logistics outsourcing success. In particular, our importance–performance map analysis (IPMA) revealed that the 3PLs' technological capability was the most significant factor in logistics outsourcing success. The article also expounds on how the 3PLs' technical capability can bring logistics outsourcing success.

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研究撒哈拉以南非洲物流外包的成功因素

随着商业活动的迅速全球化，物流变得异常复杂和错综复杂。因此，物流管理比以往任何时候都更具挑战性。应对这一挑战的时髦解决方案之一就是物流外包。在这方面，撒哈拉以南非洲企业也不例外。为了帮助撒哈拉以南非洲企业成功利用物流外包实现差异化竞争，本文旨在研究第三方物流服务提供商（3PLs）的组织能力如何促进其用户的物流外包成功。基于对乌干达 211 家食品加工企业的实证分析，我们发现第三方物流服务商的技术和创新能力对物流外包的成功有积极影响。相比之下，第三方物流公司的灵活性和整合能力对物流外包成功与否没有影响。特别是，我们的重要性-绩效图分析（IPMA）显示，第三方物流公司的技术能力是影响物流外包成功的最重要因素。文章还阐述了第三方物流公司的技术能力如何带来物流外包的成功。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

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31.40

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1.10%

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312

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2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.