TY - JOUR
T1 - Make or buy decisions in and levels of logistics outsourcing: an empirical analysis in the food manufacturing industry
AU - Hsin-I Hsiao, L.
AU - Kemp, R.G.M.
AU - van der Vorst, J.G.A.J.
AU - Omta, S.W.F.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The objective of this paper is to study the determinants of outsourcing of different levels of logistics activities in the food manufacturing industry. In our research, four different levels of logistics activities were examined: (1st level) transportation, (2nd level) packaging, (3rd level) transportation and inventory management, and (4th level) distribution network design. Questionnaires were mailed to logistics managers in the Netherlands and Taiwan of which an effective sample size of 114 were used in this study. Our results reveal that three theoretical perspectives (transaction cost theory, resource-based view, supply chain management) contribute to the explanation of an outsourcing decision, i.e. the determinant factors for logistics outsourcing in the food industry are: asset specificity, core closeness and supply chain complexity. Furthermore, the results show that each level of logistics activity has its own key outsourcing determinants
AB - The objective of this paper is to study the determinants of outsourcing of different levels of logistics activities in the food manufacturing industry. In our research, four different levels of logistics activities were examined: (1st level) transportation, (2nd level) packaging, (3rd level) transportation and inventory management, and (4th level) distribution network design. Questionnaires were mailed to logistics managers in the Netherlands and Taiwan of which an effective sample size of 114 were used in this study. Our results reveal that three theoretical perspectives (transaction cost theory, resource-based view, supply chain management) contribute to the explanation of an outsourcing decision, i.e. the determinant factors for logistics outsourcing in the food industry are: asset specificity, core closeness and supply chain complexity. Furthermore, the results show that each level of logistics activity has its own key outsourcing determinants
KW - Food industry
KW - Fourth-party logistics
KW - Logistics
KW - Make-or-buy decisions
U2 - 10.3920/JCNS2009.x165
DO - 10.3920/JCNS2009.x165
M3 - Article
SN - 1569-1829
VL - 9
SP - 105
EP - 118
JO - Journal on Chain and Network Science
JF - Journal on Chain and Network Science
IS - 2
ER -