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The Effects of Manufacturing Internationalization on Transport and Logistics. Empirical Evidence on Italy

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Transport and Logistics in a Globalizing World

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Abstract

The internationalization of production, in all its forms, exhibits direct and indirect effects on the transport and logistics operations at the level of the home country: that is, from where the manufacturing investment departs. The present chapter disentangles these effects, and presents the results of the few studies on this topic. It results that the internationalization of production increases the demand for employees in the transport and logistics industry, thus showing a rise to the strong outsourcing of such activities to logistics providers located at least in the same region.

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  1. 1.

    International firms tend to be more competitive than domestic firms: for a review see Chap. 4 on firm heterogeneity.

  2. 2.

    In the chapter the terms “internalization” and “insourcing” are considered synonymous. The same holds for “externalization” and “outsourcing”.

  3. 3.

    Italian SMEs tend to organize the supply chain on specific local systems (industrial districts) making it possible to exploit agglomerative advantages and capture the efficiency of proximity between suppliers and users (Boix and Galletto 2009; Mariotti et al. 2008). Traditionally, scholars describe Italian industrial districts as closed manufacturing systems of SMEs embedded in local contexts, able to interact with the outside only at the two ends of the value chain, and where well-identified firms are in charge of managing the relationships with final markets (Becattini 1987, 2002; Garofoli 1983; Viesti 2000).

  4. 4.

    These are: warehousing, production planning, procurement, picking and packaging.

  5. 5.

    Eight of the eleven transport and logistics sub-sectors have been considered in the analysis: the transport modes (NACE codes: 60, 61, 62), with the exclusion of the air transport sub-sector (62100), which mainly concerns passenger transport, and their supply and support transport activities (NACE code: 63).

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Mariotti, I. (2015). The Effects of Manufacturing Internationalization on Transport and Logistics. Empirical Evidence on Italy. In: Transport and Logistics in a Globalizing World. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00011-4_5

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