LOGISTICS CAPABILITY AND ITS EFFECTS ON COMPETITIVENESS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY THROUGHOUT TURKEY

Authors : İsmail BAKAN, Zumrut Hatice SEKKELİ, Sonay YİLMAZ

Pages : 206-217

Doi:10.17261/Pressacademia.2017.405

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Publication Date : 2017-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Today’s market environment is very complex and unpredicted. To gain an advantage; companies are forced to improve competitiveness. In recent years some companies indicate that logistics capability as the way to increase competitiveness. Therefore this paper goal to define logistics capability and examine how logistics capability impacts on the firm competitiveness.  To analyze the relationship between logistics capabilities and competitiveness, is built a modal and research hypothesis.   The data was collected from the national industry of logistics service providers associated in the international forwarding associations UND by survey method. 450 surveys were distributed, 428 of them was returned insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(a response rate of 95%);. All data was analyzed using SPSS and AMOS programme. After analyzing the research data, an absolute measure of fit presumes that the model is fit enough and there is a statistically significant relationship between logistics capabilities and competitiveness, as predicted.  
Keywords : Logistics, capability, competitiveness