TÜRKİYE’NİN LOJİSTİK PERFORMANS ENDEKSİNİN STRATEJİK BAKIŞ AÇISIYLA DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

Year 2023, Volume: 13 Issue: 3, 1315 - 1327, 25.09.2023

Korhan Arun , Saniye Yıldırım Özmutlu

https://doi.org/10.30783/nevsosbilen.1228917

Abstract

Logistics plays a vital role in ensuring the competitiveness of countries in the international arena. The Logistics Performance Index, which reflects countries' global competitiveness, shows a country's efficiency in trade. Moreover, the Logistics Performance Index determines the countries' on-the-ground efficiency of trade supply chains or logistics services. This study aims to examine the effects of the Logistics Performance Index and its sub-dimensions on the logistics performance of logistics companies from a strategic point of view. The data related to the study is gathered from the World Bank database and the International Association of Forwarding and Logistics Service Providers sectoral databank. The robustness of the underlying data is related to individual logistics firms' factors. Variance-based structural equation modelling with regression analyses is used for measurements. Contrary to the joint logistics and supply chain literature, the results show that infrastructure and tracking sub-dimensions of the Logistics Performance Index negatively relate to firms' logistics performance in Turkey.

Keywords

LogisticsPerformance Index, Logistics Performance, Turkey, Strategy

EVALUATION OF TURKEY'S LOGISTICS PERFORMANCE INDEX WITH A STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Logistics plays a vital role in ensuring the competitiveness of countries in the international arena. The Logistics Performance Index, which reflects countries' international competitiveness, shows a country's efficiency in trade. However, the Logistics Performance Index determines the countries' on-the-ground efficiency of trade supply chains or logistics services from the view of worldwide logistics firms' managers. As a result, the robustness of the underlying data is related to individual logistics firms' factors; moreover, in the common literature, the effects of the Logistics Performance Index on countries' individual logistics firms' logistics performance have yet to be researched. This paper aims to analyze the effects of Logistics Performance Index and its subdimensions on the logistics firms' logistics performance. The data is gathered from the World Bank database between 2007-2018 and the International Association of Forwarding and Logistics Service Providers sectoral databank. Variance-based structural equation modeling with regression analyses is used for measurements. Contrary to the joint logistics and supply chain literature, the results show that infrastructure and tracking sub-dimensions of Logistics Performance Index negatively relate to firms' logistics performance in Turkey.

Keywords

Logistics Performance Index, Logistics Performance, Turkey, Logistics Infrastructure

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