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Logistics Clusters
Governments around the world are investing significant resources in the development and expansion of logistics clusters. This dissertation analyzes the cluster phenomenon focusing on four topics. First, it develops a methodology to identify clusters and applies it to the context of the US. By analyzing the case of logistics clusters, this thesis contributes to a more general debate in the industrial clusters literature: while many authors see industrial clusters growing, others see them dispersing. Evidence of increasing concentration of the logistics industry in clusters in the US over time is tested and documented. In addition, some evidence that logistics activities in counties inside clu...
Development of Panama as a Logistics Hub and the Impact on Latin America
The Panamanian government is executing an aggressive economic growth initiative to transform the country into a regional logistics hub, like Singapore or Dubai. Two elements of the initiative are expansion of the Panama Canal and development of the Panama Pacifico Project, a large logistics park. The government initiative is analyzed with respect to the logistics hubs in Singapore and Dubai by 1) identifying a structure of critical factors for developing a logistics cluster, 2) using this structure to analyze the feasibility of Panama becoming a major logistics hub, and 3) exploring the impact of a logistics_hub in Panama on the Latin American network of ports. We make recommendations so that Panama can speedily develop its logistics hub, and so that Latin American ports whose existence is threatened by this development can adapt.
Transformación digital en las organizaciones
Este libro aborda aspectos fundamentales de la transformación digital en las organizaciones, y a través de estas, en la sociedad en general. Especialistas de diversos campos disciplinares y contextos, así como líderes con experiencia en la realización de este tipo de iniciativas en organizaciones de diversos tipos y tamaños, abordan los orígenes, los fundamentos y las implicaciones de esta importante transformación. La transformación digital conduce a las organizaciones a considerar la implementación de múltiples iniciativas tecnológicas, pero también, a la realización de diversas acciones en lo social, lo cultural, lo político, lo económico, lo ecológico y lo normativo, en ...
Logistics Clusters
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 oth...
