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Paper info: The Relations of Embeddedness and Competitiveness with Logistics Service Providers a Central European Sample

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The Relations of Embeddedness and Competitiveness with Logistics Service Providers a Central European Sample

Authors


Edit Neumann-Bódi

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The paper was published at the 27th IMP-conference in Glasgow, Scotland in 2011.

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Abstract


Abstract
The study investigates the underlying factors of those perceived competition disadvantages in the logistic field which may result from various levels of regulation, and administrative practices respectively. By collecting the experiences of the top leaders of Hungarian companies and analyzing the problems which have arisen, the research project attempts to reflect on those causes and factors in the background from a scientific point of view, which can lead back to these problems, thus aiming to offer a better solution to them.
In this article we show the results of our first study, where the main goal was to disclose and appreciate the extent the main problem issues, and find the connections to theoretical constructs. The research sets out the experiences of international companies’ executives. The technique of the research was a written questionnaire, in which the executives of 186 industrial company took part. One obstacle of the progress is the slow development of the regulatory and institutional background, in connection with which the authors raise the problem of path dependency. There are inadequacies in the ability of embeddedness (Mandják and Szántó, 2010), namely in the acquisition of the necessary knowledge and of the ability to cooperate. The authors investigate the problems that contribute to the exploration of the elements of embeddedness and path dependency, and support the understanding of the connection between competitiveness and these two concepts.
Keywords: competitiveness, embeddedness, path dependency, logistics, integrated logistics, network, regulations,