ABSTRACT
Thesis: Relationships among logistics capabilities, competitive strategy and firm performance.
The purpose of this research is to find the relationships among logistics capabilities, competitive strategy and firm performance. This study tries to explore on the proposition that corporate strategy is most effective when pursued with resources/capabilities that ¡§fit¡¨. To test this proposition survey data form the Taiwan¡¦s logistics business and steel make industry are analyzed via SPSS & LISREL. The results indicate that:
1. The logistics capabilities include ¡§process capabilities¡¨, ¡¨value-added service capabilities¡¨, ¡§flexibility capabilities¡¨ and ¡§supply capabilities¡¨. Competitive strategies are based on M. E. Porter¡¦s generic business strategies include ¡§total cost leadership strategy¡¨, ¡§differentiation strategy¡¨.
2. The difference is statistically significant in those servicing business is more emphasized the important of flexibility capabilities than manufacturing industry and firms which middle annual turnover is more emphasized the important of value-added service capabilities than firms which lower annual turnover.
3. Process capabilities, value-added service capabilities, flexibility capabilities and supply capabilities are statistically significantly positively linked to differentiation strategy. Only process capabilities, value-added service capabilities, flexibility capabilities are statistically significantly positively linked to total cost leadership strategy.
4.Process capabilities, value-added service capabilities, flexibility capabilities are statistically significantly positively linked to firm performance. Both total cost leadership strategy and differentiation strategy are statistically significantly positively linked to firm performance. Only differentiation strategy is statistically significantly positively affected to firm performance.
5.The path, which most ¡§fit¡¨ model of firm performance, is process capabilities & supply capabilities linked to total cost leadership strategy and value-added service capabilities & flexibility capabilities linked to differentiation strategy.
Keyword: logistics capabilities,competitive strategy,firm performance
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0827102-230828 |
| Date | 27 August 2002 |
| Creators | Kuo, Chun-Nan |
| Contributors | Jin-Feng Uen, Shyh-jer Chen, Te-Cheng Yu |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0827102-230828 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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