Emergence of Resource and Capability of Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) under Dynamic and Uncertain Environments
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 November 2022) | Viewed by 9105
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The COVID-19 pandemic impacts are causing uncertainties and changes to the future of businesses and supply chains. These dynamic and uncertain environments in the logistics industry have completely changed the norm of logistics activities and operations. To achieve sustained competitiveness in this unavoidable situation, the new business model of logistics service providers (LSPs) or third-party logistics (3PL) firms must acquire and empower new resources and capabilities to align with these rapidly shifting environments. In this uncertainty, the new emergence of resources and capabilities is a function of competitiveness for LSPs or 3PL providers ascertaining advanced and innovative logistics services globally. The variance in resource capability orchestration, its magnitude and possession cause a different impact on firms’ performance. The competitive advantages are enhanced when firm resource and capability increase and their effects are varied significantly according to the innovation, evolution, and advances of resources and capabilities. However, so far, not all firms have obtained a competitive advantage through resource and capability; or not all resources and capabilities lead to a better performance. Thus, it is essential to comprehend the mechanism of competitiveness in this rapidly changing environment. This Special Issue aims to distinguish what and which resources and capabilities are essential to deal with these new norm challenges and discover the emergent attributes or configurations of resources and capabilities and how firm-specific or innovation of resource capability foster LSP performance.
This Special Issue will offer scholars, logistics providers, and logisticians a new business model and a deeper understanding of certain facets of a successful business future. First, it will provide insider knowledge and understanding of the competitive mechanism changes in dealing with a dynamic and uncertain environment. Second, it will contribute to the knowledge concerning resources and capabilities in the new norm logistics business and operations empowering successful logistics services and sustained competitiveness. It will also contribute to predicting future logistics services and operations that help providers and logisticians to react with uncertainty. Further, this Special Issue may also offer new or extend the previous literature, research and theory of logistics, service operations, innovation, and strategic management by offering theoretical and empirical evidence articles.
This Special Issue embraces conceptual, empirical, theoretical, quantitative, and qualitative research papers. The topics of interest include but are not restricted to:
- New emergent resources and capabilities in managing logistics business and operations in dynamic or uncertain environments;
- Resource capability, competitiveness, and sustainability in uncertainty;
- Alterations of configurations and orchestrations of resource capability;
- Variance, magnitude, and possession of resources and capabilities in uncertainty;
- Impacts on resources and capabilities in a specific environment;
- Physical, technology, knowledge, relational and organization resources and innovation;
- Determinants of performance and sustained competitiveness in uncertainty;
- Emerging resource and capability implications.
Dr. Noorliza Karia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- competitiveness
- dynamic environment
- innovation
- logistics service providers
- resource and capability
- third-party logistics (3PL)
- sustainability
