Logistics Clusters
Delivering Value and Driving Growth
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
29 August 2014
Summary
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 co…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262526791 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262526794 |
| Author: | Yossi Sheffi |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 29 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 494g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 19mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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About The Author
Yossi Sheffi
Yossi Sheffi is Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT and Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. He has worked with leading manufacturers and logistics service providers around the world on operations and strategy issues and is the author of three award-winning books- The Resilient Enterprise- Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage, Logistics Clusters- Delivering Value and Driving Growth, and The Power of Resilience- How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected, all published by the MIT Press.
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