Organizational Dynamics of the U.S. Logistics Industry: The Impacts of Inter-Firm Networks, Technologies, and Globalization

美国物流业的组织动态：企业间网络、技术和全球化的影响

• 批准号: 0350697
• 负责人: Yuko Aoyama
• 金额: $ 19万
• 依托单位: Clark University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-01 至 2008-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0350697&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Organizational; Dynamics; U.S.; Logistics; Industry

Although the logistics industry provides critical services to all sectors of the economy, few studies exist in Economic Geography that attempt to understand the organizational dynamics of this industry. The aim of this research is to understand the organizational dynamics of the logistics industry. We will focus on the following dimensions that are identified as particularly important: use of information technologies, intensifying global trade, and changing geographic requirements. We combine an in-depth empirical survey, comprised of a nationwide mail-in survey and semi-structured interviews of logistics users and providers in the Boston-Washington corridor, with an exploratory use of agent-based modeling. The model is designed to push the research beyond collection of anecdotal evidence and offer a structured and systematic understanding of organizational dynamics of the logistics industry. The study will enrich understanding of the interaction between technology and space through examining the evolution of an industry that plays a central role in the contemporary economy. Research results will provide little known aspects of the logistics industry's emerging organizational dynamics and inform academics and policy makers on the theoretical and practical understandings of the long-distance coordination of production.

尽管物流业为所有经济部门提供关键服务，但经济地理学中很少有研究试图了解该行业的组织动态。 本研究的目的是了解物流行业的组织动态。 我们将重点关注以下被认为特别重要的方面：信息技术的使用、加强全球贸易以及不断变化的地理要求。我们将深入的实证调查（包括全国范围内的邮寄调查和对波士顿-华盛顿走廊的物流用户和提供商的半结构化访谈）与基于代理的模型的探索性使用结合起来。 该模型旨在推动研究超越轶事证据的收集，并提供对物流行业组织动态的结构化和系统性的理解。 该研究将通过研究在当代经济中发挥核心作用的行业的演变来加深对技术与空间之间相互作用的理解。研究结果将提供物流业新兴组织动态的鲜为人知的方面，并为学术界和政策制定者提供对远程生产协调的理论和实践理解。