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Supply Chain Coordination and IT: The Role of Third Party Logistics Providers

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Logistics Service Providers have become important players in supply chain management as increasing numbers of firms are outsourcing their logistics activities. In a highly competitive context characterized by “time compression”, IT alignment between supplier and logistics service provider has a direct positive impact on, strategic and operational performance. The success of logistics outsourcing relationship is entrenched in the third party’s technological ability to improve the supply chain reactivity.

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  1. Faculty of Economics, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Roberta Pinna, Pier Paolo Carrus & Daniela Pettinao

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  1. Sistemi Informativi (CeRSI), Centro di Ricerca sui, Via G. Alberoni 7, Roma, 00198, Italy

    Alessandro D'Atri

  2. Facoltà di Economia, Dipto. Scienze dell'Economia e della, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Via Necchi 7, Milano, 20123, Italy

    Marco De Marco

  3. Sistemi Informativi (CeRSI), Centro di Ricerca sui, Via G. Alberoni 7, Roma, 00198, Italy

    Alessio Maria Braccini

  4. Dipto. Economia, Università di Cagliari, Viale S. Ignazio 74, Cagliari, 09123, Italy

    Francesca Cabiddu

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Pinna, R., Carrus, P.P., Pettinao, D. (2010). Supply Chain Coordination and IT: The Role of Third Party Logistics Providers. In: D'Atri, A., De Marco, M., Braccini, A., Cabiddu, F. (eds) Management of the Interconnected World. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2404-9_35

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